{"product_id":"understanding-susan-sontag-paperback-1","title":"Understanding Susan Sontag - Paperback","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\u003eCarl Rollyson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive account of the author's entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual, who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Susan Sontag\u003c\/i\u003e, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate classic texts such as \u003ci\u003eAgainst Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, providing both students and advanced scholars a renewed sense of her importance and impact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRollyson devotes separate chapters to Sontag's biography; her early novels; her landmark essay collections \u003ci\u003eAgainst Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStyles of Radical Will;\u003c\/i\u003e her films; her major mid-career books, \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and its sequel, \u003ci\u003eRegarding the Pain of Others\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eIllness as Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e and its sequel, \u003ci\u003eAIDS and Its Metaphors, \u003c\/i\u003e together with her groundbreaking short story, \"The Way We Live Now.\" Sontag's later essay collections and biographical profiles, collected in\u003ci\u003e Under the Sign of Saturn, Where the Stress Falls\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAt The Same Time: Essays and Speeches\u003c\/i\u003e, also receive a fresh assessment, as does her later work in short fiction, the novel, and drama, with a chapter discussing \u003ci\u003eI, etcetera\u003c\/i\u003e; two historical novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Volcano Lover\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn America\u003c\/i\u003e; and her plays, \u003ci\u003eA Parsifal, Alice in Bed, \u003c\/i\u003e and her adaptation of Ibsen's\u003ci\u003e The Lady from the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. Chapters on her diaries and uncollected prose, along with a primary and secondary bibliography, complete this comprehensive study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Rollyson\u003c\/b\u003e, professor of journalism at Baruch College, the City University of New York, is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan; A Private Life of Michael Foot; Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography; American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath; Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews; Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress; Lillian Hellman: Her Life and Legend; Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn; Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic; and three studies of biography, A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography, Biography: A User's Guide, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Serial Biographer.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47334349897977,"sku":"9781643360911","price":37.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/h11edMBQKT9781643360911_92e7cd15-c085-4330-b133-f079e5424f21.webp?v=1769648836","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/understanding-susan-sontag-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}