Lopate Notes on Sontag

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2987-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Writers on Writers

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lopate, Phillip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
List of Abbreviations, pg. v
Introduction, pg. 1
Against Interpretation, pg. 23
Early Memories of Sontag, pg. 37
Politics and Personae, pg. 47
Bêtes Noires, pg. 66
Crisis as Starting-Point, pg. 79
Are the Arts Progressive?, pg. 83
The Stylistics of Demystification, pg. 88
The Aphoristic Essay, pg. 93
The Film Essays, pg. 99
My Favorite Book of Hers, pg. 111
Readers Feeling Stupid, pg. 129
The Benefactor, pg. 135
Humor and Seriousness, pg. 141
Death Kit, pg. 143
Shallow America, pg. 149
The Volcano Lover, pg. 159
Performance, Character, and Theatre, pg. 166
The Essay Form, Transgression, and Innovation, pg. 171
Don’t Get Personal, pg. 174
Later Memories of Sontag, pg. 184
Writings on Photography, pg. 202
More on Politics, pg. 217
On 9/11 and Television, pg. 223
Greatness Besieged, pg. 227
Illness and Death, pg. 233
Acknowledgments, pg. 247

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip Lopate is the author of many books, including the essay collections Getting Personal (Basic), Against Joie de Vivre (Simon & Schuster), Portrait of My Body (Doubleday), and Bachelorhood (Little, Brown), as well as the anthology, The Art of the Personal Essay (Doubleday). Among his other books is Waterfront: A Walk around Manhattan (Crown). He teaches writing at Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.