Notes on Sontag

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Author(s): Phillip Lopate
Edition: ebook
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 256

NOTES ON SONTAG......Page 4
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 6
The Judgment......Page 8
Against Interpretation......Page 30
Early Memories of Sontag......Page 44
Politics and Personae......Page 54
Bêtes Noires......Page 73
Crisis as Starting-Point......Page 86
Are the Arts Progressive?......Page 90
The Stylistics of Demystification......Page 95
The Aphoristic Essay......Page 100
The Film Essays......Page 106
My Favorite Book of Hers......Page 118
Readers Feeling Stupid......Page 136
The Benefactor......Page 142
Humor and Seriousness......Page 148
Death Kit......Page 150
Shallow America......Page 156
The Volcano Lover......Page 166
Performance, Character, and Theatre......Page 173
The Essay Form, Transgression, and Innovation......Page 178
Don’t Get Personal......Page 181
Later Memories of Sontag......Page 191
Writings on Photography......Page 209
More on Politics......Page 224
On 9/11 and Television......Page 230
Greatness besieged......Page 234
Illness and Death......Page 240
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 254