{"product_id":"susan-sontags-tangential-classics-hardcover-3","title":"Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Jansen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: \"My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me.\" This statement was made thirty years after the publication of \u003cem\u003eAgainst Interpretation\u003c\/em\u003e in 1966, towards the end of a prolific career as an essayist, diarist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist. The Greco-Roman classics play an intriguing part in this narrative of insatiable thirst for knowledge. \u003cem\u003eSusan Sontag's Tangential Classics\u003c\/em\u003e sets out to focus on this juncture in her work. Instead of offering an account of antiquity in Sontag, or of Sontag on antiquity, the collected chapters are specifically concerned with her as a case of a thinker in whom the classical tradition does not come into exclusive focus, but emerges \u003cem\u003etangentially--\u003c\/em\u003ein often disparate and exiguous traces, connections, and references within a polymathic awareness. This volume examines Sontag's work and life to probe new strategies of plotting antiquity, when its presence in modernity is alluring yet barely there, and when the connective thread of influence seems to exist at breaking point. \u003cem\u003eSusan Sontag's Tangential Classics\u003c\/em\u003e directs our attention to a twentieth-century thinker who invites a markedly different perception of antiquity and its influence in her thought: at once captivating and light, provocative and uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Jansen, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Bristol\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLaura Jansen is Associate Professor (Reader) of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol. She is General Editor of Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing (Bloomsbury), the author of \u003cem\u003eBorges' Classics\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge, 2018), and editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Roman Paratext\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge, 2014), and \u003cem\u003eAnne Carson\/Antiquity\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2022).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336202338553,"sku":"9780192870698","price":188.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ta6C2WYsQQ9780192870698_b44f6af2-b562-43b6-8079-5a292e656157.webp?v=1769667284","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/susan-sontags-tangential-classics-hardcover-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}