Description
| Product ID: | 9780367757144 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture |
| Title: | Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays |
| Subtitle: | Radical Contemplative |
| Authors: | Author: Mark Fulk |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 - |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book offers its readers a scholarly examination of Sontag's essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetics. This study constructs a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts in France and Germany, which includes Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Walter Benjamin. Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory. This study sets up a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts in France and Germany, including the works of Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Walter Benjamin. Artists and concepts discussed in relation to Sontag’s essays include the works of Andy Warhol, Pop Art, French New Wave Cinema, the music of John Cage, and the cinematic art of Robert Bresson, Leni Riefenstahl, Ingmar Bergman, and Jean-Luc Godard. Her aesthetic formalism is compared with Harold Bloom, and this is the first volume to examine her late works and their position within the American events of 9/11/01 and the War on Terror(ism). |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-13 |
