In the Archive of LongingIn the Archive s Critical Modernism 1st Edition by Mena Mitrano ISBN 978-1474414340 1474414346

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ISBN 10: 1474414346

ISBN 13: 978-1474414340

Author: Mena Mitrano

Reads modernism and theory through Susan Sontag’s archive
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.
Key Features
Original study of Susan Sontag’s contribution to the development of critical thoughtOpens new avenues for research in the expanding field of new modernist studies and in the field of criticismDiscusses Sontag’s collaboration with Walter Benjamin which reopens the question of the author and encourages an understanding of this concept from a psychoanalytic perspective, as a transgenerational phenomenonIncludes a discussion of the role of the American avant-garde in Sontag’s abandonment of philosophy and in her turn to a pioneering, more theoretical literary criticism

Table of contents: 

1 Thoughts about Thinking: Approaching Sontag

2 Aesthetic Experience and Critical Theory

3 The Public Intellectual

4 Modernism and Theory

5 Iconologies

6 Aura, Dread and the Amateur

7 Interlocution

Coda (to the Gentle Reader)

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