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Susan Sontag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Susan Sontag photographed at home on Riverside Drive, November 18, 1974. ... Her celebrations of pop culture erased the old boundaries that limited the acceptable subjects for serious criticism. Against Interpretation made a powerful case against the Partisan Review style of literary criticism, which focused on the moral...
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The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. ... Tags: susan sontag ... A friend of mine is certain Susan Sontag is waiting to determine his fate in the afterlife.
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The legacy of Susan Sontag.(At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches)(Book review); Magazine article from: Contemporary Review ; ...Same Time: Essays and Speeches. Susan Sontag. ... Susan Sontag In America: A Novel.(Review); Magazine article from: New Criterion ; Susan Sontag In America: A Novel. Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
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IN THIS collection of essays from the last two decades, Susan Sontag dwells on literary neglect. Writers such as Machado de Assis, Glenway Westcott, Natsume Soseki and Alfred Doblin are retrieved from the shadows--of the English-speaking world, at least--and irradiated with careful readings and hyperbolic praise.
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Excerpt from "Soliciting Self-Knowledge: The Rhetoric of Susan Sontag's Criticism" by Cary Nelson ... 1. There is, to be sure, an atmosphere of iconoclasm and intellectual challenge about Sontag's criticism, but it is not especially self-congratulatory.
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