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2768929Understanding Susan Sontaghttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/understanding-susan-sontag-9781611176810/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2849739/717f50bc-baae-4922-bd57-bd62ab503fa3.jpg?v=638384536044700000325451MXNUniversity of South Carolina PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A comprehensive account of the authors entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries</strong></p><p>With the publication of Susan Sontags diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual, who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In <em>Understanding Susan Sontag</em>, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate classic texts such as <em>Against Interpretation</em> and <em>On Photography</em>, providing both students and advanced scholars a renewed sense of her importance and impact.</p><p>Rollyson devotes separate chapters to Sontags biography; her early novels; her landmark essay collections <em>Against Interpretation</em> and <em>Styles of Radical Will;</em> her films; her major mid-career books, <em>On Photography</em> and its sequel, <em>Regarding the Pain of Others</em>; and <em>Illness as Metaphor</em> and its sequel, <em>AIDS and Its Metaphors,</em> together with her groundbreaking short story, "The Way We Live Now." Sontags later essay collections and biographical profiles, collected in <em>Under the Sign of Saturn, Where the Stress Falls</em>, and <em>At The Same Time: Essays and Speeches</em>, also receive a fresh assessment, as does her later work in short fiction, the novel, and drama, with a chapter discussing <em>I, etcetera</em>; two historical novels, <em>The Volcano Lover</em> and <em>In America</em>; and her plays, <em>A Parsifal, Alice in Bed,</em> and her adaptation of Ibsens <em>The Lady from the Sea</em>. Chapters on her diaries and uncollected prose, along with a primary and secondary bibliography, complete this comprehensive study.</p>...2704597Understanding Susan Sontag325451https://www.gandhi.com.mx/understanding-susan-sontag-9781611176810/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2849739/717f50bc-baae-4922-bd57-bd62ab503fa3.jpg?v=638384536044700000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169781611176810_W3siaWQiOiJmMzk2NGEwYi1hZTNlLTQ2NzItOTRhOS0zNWVlNjI2ZWQ2MTciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ2MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjEyOSwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjozMzEsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI0LTEyLTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9781611176810_<p>A comprehensive account of the authors entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries</p><p>With the publication of Susan Sontags diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual, who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate classic texts such as Against Interpretation and On Photography, providing both students and advanced scholars a renewed sense of her importance and impact.</p><p>Rollyson devotes separate chapters to Sontags biography; her early novels; her landmark essay collections Against Interpretation and Styles of Radical Will; her films; her major mid-career books, On Photography and its sequel, Regarding the Pain of Others; and Illness as Metaphor and its sequel, AIDS and Its Metaphors, together with her groundbreaking short story, The Way We Live Now. Sontags later essay collections and biographical profiles, collected in Under the Sign of Saturn, Where the Stress Falls, and At The Same Time: Essays and Speeches, also receive a fresh assessment, as does her later work in short fiction, the novel, and drama, with a chapter discussing I, etcetera; two historical novels, The Volcano Lover and In America; and her plays, A Parsifal, Alice in Bed, and her adaptation of Ibsens The Lady from the Sea. Chapters on her diaries and uncollected prose, along with a primary and secondary bibliography, complete this comprehensive study.</p>...(*_*)9781611176810_<p><strong>A comprehensive account of the authors entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries</strong></p><p>With the publication of Susan Sontags diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual, who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In <em>Understanding Susan Sontag</em>, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate classic texts such as <em>Against Interpretation</em> and <em>On Photography</em>, providing both students and advanced scholars a renewed sense of her importance and impact.</p><p>Rollyson devotes separate chapters to Sontags biography; her early novels; her landmark essay collections <em>Against Interpretation</em> and <em>Styles of Radical Will;</em> her films; her major mid-career books, <em>On Photography</em> and its sequel, <em>Regarding the Pain of Others</em>; and <em>Illness as Metaphor</em> and its sequel, <em>AIDS and Its Metaphors,</em> together with her groundbreaking short story, "The Way We Live Now." Sontags later essay collections and biographical profiles, collected in <em>Under the Sign of Saturn, Where the Stress Falls</em>, and <em>At The Same Time: Essays and Speeches</em>, also receive a fresh assessment, as does her later work in short fiction, the novel, and drama, with a chapter discussing <em>I, etcetera</em>; two historical novels, <em>The Volcano Lover</em> and <em>In America</em>; and her plays, <em>A Parsifal, Alice in Bed,</em> and her adaptation of Ibsens <em>The Lady from the Sea</em>. Chapters on her diaries and uncollected prose, along with a primary and secondary bibliography, complete this comprehensive study.</p>...9781611176810_University of South Carolina Presslibro_electonico_2078860e-2a7b-3b76-bf8b-e6b81342dc96_9781611176810;9781611176810_9781611176810Carl RollysonInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram52-epub-33037892-44fa-4454-a877-cc9dd0ba096a.epub2016-10-01T00:00:00+00:00University of South Carolina Press