The scandal of Susan Sontag
By: edited by Barbara Ching and Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor.
Contributors: Ching, Barbara, 1958-; Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A.
Series: Gender and culture; Gender and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780231149167; 9780231149174; 9780231520454
Subjects: Sontag, Susan, -- 1933-2004 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: unextinguished: Susan Sontag's work in progress  -- Barbara Ching and Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor; title: Some notes on "Notes on camp"  -- Terry Castle; title: Absolute seriousness: Susan Sontag in American popular culture  -- Dana Heller; title: "Not even a New Yorker": Susan Sontag in America  -- Barbara Ching; title: Romances of community in Sontag's later fiction  -- Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor; title: Sontag, modernity, and cinema: women and an aesthetics of silence, 1960-1980  -- E. Ann Kaplan; title: Sontag on theater  -- Julia Walker; title: The "counterculture" in quotation marks: Sontag and Marcuse on the work of revolution  -- Craig J. Peariso; title: A way of feeling is a way of seeing: Sontag and the visual arts  -- Leslie Luebbers; title: Metaphors kill: "Against interpretation" and the illness books  -- Jay Prosser; title: The posthumous life of Susan Sontag  -- Nancy K. Miller; title: In summa: the latter essays: an appreciation  -- Sohnya Sayres; title: Susan Sontag, cosmophage -- Wayne Koestenbaum.