Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag (born Susan Rosenblatt, 16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, novelist, writer of screenplays, professor, literary icon, and political activist.
Contents
=Works
Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977. Download.
Monographs
- On Photography, 1977. [1] [2]
- Sobre la fotografía (Spanish, trans. Carlos Gardini), 1981
- Illness as Metaphor, 1978
- AIDS and Its Metaphors (a continuation of Illness as Metaphor), 1988
- Regarding the Pain of Others, 2003
Novels
- The Benefactor, 1964
- Death Kit, 1967
- The Volcano Lover, 1992
- In America, 2000
Essay collections
- Against Interpretation and Other Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. Excerpts.
- Styles of Radical Will, 1969.
- with Peter Hujar, Portraits in life and death, Da Capo Press, 1976.
- Under the Sign of Saturn, 1980.
- A Susan Sontag Reader, ed. Elizabeth Hardwick, London, 1983.
- Where the Stress Falls, 2001.
- At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches, 2007.
Articles, papers, chapters, reviews
- "Notes on Camp", Partisan Review, 1964; repr. in Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader, 1964, pp 53-65.
- "Film and Theatre", The Tulane Drama Review 11:1 (Autumn 1966), pp 24-37.
- "A Note on Bunraku", The Threepenny Review 16 (1984).
- "In Conclusion...", East-West Film Journal 2:1 (December 1987), pp 93-106.
- "The Decay of Cinema", New York Times, 1996.
- "Why are we in Kosovo?", New York Times Magazine, 2 May 1999.
- "A Photograph is not an Opinion. Or is it?", Women, 1999.
- "Looking at War", The New Yorker, 9 Dec 2002, pp 82-98.
- "Regarding the torture of others", New York Times, 23 May 2004, p 24.
- "At the same time... (the novelist and moral reasoning)", English Studies in Africa 48:1 (2005), pp 5-17.
- "An argument about beauty", Dædalus (Fall 2005), pp 208-213.
Bibliographies
- Leland A. Poague, Kathy A. Parsons, Susan Sontag: An Annotated Bibliography, 1948-1992, Modern Critics and Critical Studies, vol. 22, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1065, 2000.
- in Chris Murray (ed.), Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, Routledge, 2002.
Interviews
- Evans Chan, "Against Postmodernism, etcetera--A Conversation with Susan Sontag", Postmodern Culture, 2001
- "Art and Consciousness" (Susan Sontag interviewed by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta), Performing Arts Journal", 80 (2005):1–9.
Literature
- Essays
- Toback, James, "Whatever You'd Like Susan Sontag to Think, She doesn't", Esquire 70 (1968), pp 58-61.
- Sohnya Sayres, "Susan Sontag and the Practice of Modernism", American Literary History 1:3 (Autumn 1989), pp 593-611.
- Steven Drukman, "Notes on Fornes (with Apologies to Susan Sontag)", American Theatre 17:7 (2000), p 36.
- Barbara Clow, "Who's Afraid of Susan Sontag? or, the Myths and Metaphors of Cancer Reconsidered", Social History of Medicine 14:2 (2001), pp 293-312.
- Sarah Parsons, "Sontag’s Lament: Emotion, Ethics, and Photography", Photography & Culture 2:3 (Nov 2009), pp 289-302.
