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Against Interpretation : And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Biography
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," "Against Interpreta ...Show more
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. ...Show more
On Women by Susan Sontag
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Category: Sexuality and Gender
For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'b ...Show more
On Women: A New Collection of Feminist Essays from the Influential Writer, Activist and Critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
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Category: Sexuality and Gender
For the first time, On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood. A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highly-acclaimed author Susan Sontag. Often regarded as one of the most influential write ...Show more
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays
From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and mean ...Show more
Stories by Susan Sontag
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Category: General Fiction
'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial Times The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century ...Show more
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