Susan Lee Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but...
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In America (novel) (redirect from In America (Sontag))
In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska...
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Sontag: Her Life and Work is a 2019 biography of American writer Susan Sontag written by Benjamin Moser. The book won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Biography...
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At the Same Time (category Works by Susan Sontag)
Essays and Speeches is a nonfiction book by Susan Sontag published in 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Sontag's first posthumously published book, it was...
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'Jewish race' in place of 'white race' and the passage would fit nicely into Mein Kampf." Had Sontag so savaged the Jewish people, her career would have...
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vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease". According to Susan Sontag, Cioran's subject is "on being a mind, a consciousness tuned to the highest...
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and visual imagery, the two brought it to the attention of the critic Susan Sontag, whose enthusiastic praise and private screening to critics and filmmakers...
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Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (category Works by Susan Sontag)
the philosopher Paul Ricœur's Freud and Philosophy (1965). The writer Susan Sontag, Rieff's wife at the time, contributed to the work to such an extent...
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conclusion of any kind, that pornography most resists". For example, Susan Sontag singled out Catherine Robbe-Grillet's 1956 novel The Image as transcending...
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the real father of their child. In Notes on "Camp", Susan Sontag refers to this novel’s passage regarding the concept of "camp": Apart from a lazy two-page...
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considerable influence on, among others, the critic Susan Sontag and the philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; Sontag called it "one of the 20th century’s greatest...
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early October 2021. The White House had approved Buttigieg's leave. After passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Insider called Buttigieg...
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colloquial freshness of the language." The American literary theorist Susan Sontag called A Book of Memories "the greatest novel written in our time, and...
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Jury Prize at the 1962 Venice Film Festival. Author and cultural critic Susan Sontag described Vivre sa vie as "a perfect film" and "one of the most extraordinary...
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honest bathos is an element of the camp sensibility, as first analyzed by Susan Sontag, in a 1964 essay "Notes on camp". Bathos as Pope described it may be...
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attempts to partially privatize Social Security. She participated in the passage of the Obama administration's landmark bills, including the Affordable...
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including Toni Morrison, Michel Foucault, Carlos Fuentes, Eudora Welty, Susan Sontag, Truman Capote, Buckminster Fuller, Andy Warhol, Wyatt Cooper, Maxine...
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the crowd. An application of flâneur to street photography comes from Susan Sontag in her 1977 collection of essays, On Photography. She describes how,...
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Haiti envoy". BBC News. May 19, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2011. Deborah Sontag (July 5, 2012). "Earthquake Relief Where Haiti Wasn't Broken". The New York...
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two famous young singers of the day: Henriette Sontag and Caroline Unger. German soprano Henriette Sontag was 18 years old when Beethoven personally recruited...
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Archived from the original on February 3, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2024. Sontag, Deborah (July 5, 2012). "Earthquake Relief Where Haiti Wasn't Broken"....
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degree. Her professors included Vito Acconci, Sylvère Lotringer, and Susan Sontag, as well as Andrew Sarris and Edward W. Said, and she worked with the...
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American expatriate community in Paris, his friends included writer Susan Sontag. Bloom studied and taught in Paris (1953–55) at the École normale supérieure...
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Richard Miller. S/Z. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974. Barthes, Roland. Susan Sontag, ed. A Barthes Reader. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. Content and critical...
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lone tank rolls down the street at night. In Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag comments, "Again, Ingmar Bergman may have meant the tank rumbling down...
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overturning of the obscenity laws "set off an explosion of free speech". Susan Sontag, in a 1961 essay in The Supplement to the Columbia Spectator that was...
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Lucy (December 24, 2010). "White House Lauds Jon Stewart for Pushing Passage of 9/11 Health Bill". CBS News. Archived from the original on December...
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Future of the Information Revolution. London and New York: Routledge. Sontag, Susan (1977). On Photography. London: Penguin. "Garden at Sainte-Adresse"...
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Women in film Andrew Sarris Auteur theory Film criticism The New Yorker Susan Sontag "Former Wife Sues Cinema Guild Boss". Oakland Tribune. May 25, 1961....
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University Press. Sontag, Susan (1966). "Godard's Vivre sa Vie" in Against Interpretation. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Sontag, Susan (1969). "Godard"...
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