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100 1 $aSontag, Susan,$d1933-2004,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSusan Sontag :$bessays of the 1960s & 70s /$cDavid Rieff, editor.
246 30 $aEssays of the 1960s & 70s
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bLibrary Of America,$c[2013]
300 $aviii, 875 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
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338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aLibrary of America
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aWith the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her experiences as a traveler to Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, the aesthetics of science-fiction and pornography, or a range of modern thinkers from Simone Weil to E. M. Cioran. She opened dazzling new perspectives on any subject she addressed, whether the nature of photography or cultural attitudes toward illness. This volume, edited by Sontags son David Rieff, presents the full texts of four essential books: Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will (1969), On Photography (1977), and Illness as Metaphor (1978). Also here as a special feature are six previously uncollected essays including studies of William S. Burroughs and the painter Francis Bacon and a series of reflections on beauty, aging, and the emerging feminist movement.
650 0 $aCriticism.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAesthetics.
650 0 $aPhotography, Artistic.
650 0 $aTuberculosis in literature.
650 0 $aCancer in literature.
650 0 $aAmerican essays.
700 1 $aRieff, David,$eeditor.
830 0 $aLibrary of America.
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