In the archive of longing : Susan Sontag's critical modernism / Mena Mitrano.

Author
Mitrano, Mena [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Description
1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : facsimiles.

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This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas in this study: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an unwritten theory suggested by Sontag's subterranean engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag's identity as a non-traditional philosopher, through the extraordinary discipleship to Walter Benjamin. The book is driven by new archival research and will have a multi-layered impact, changing our perception of Sontag as a post-Cold War public intellectual as well as interrogating key concepts in the Humanities.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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  • 9781474414357 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1474414354 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781474414364 ((ePub ebook))
  • 1474414362
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