Notes on Sontag 1st Edition by Phillip Lopate ISBN 978-0691135700 0691135703

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ISBN 10:   0691135703

ISBN 13:  978-0691135700

Author: Phillip Lopate

Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the “foremost interpreters of . . . our recent contemporary moment.” Adopting Sontag’s favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle around a topic from different perspectives, renowned essayist Phillip Lopate considers the achievements and limitations of his tantalizing, daunting subject through what is fundamentally a conversation between two writers. Reactions to Sontag tend to be polarized, but Lopate’s account of Sontag’s significance to him and to the culture over which she loomed is neither hagiography nor hatchet job. Despite admiring and being inspired by her essays, he admits a persistent ambivalence about Sontag. Lopate also describes the figure she cut in person through a series of wry personal anecdotes of his encounters with her over the years.

Setting out from middle-class California to invent herself as a European-style intellectual, Sontag raised the bar of critical discourse and offered up a model of a freethinking, imaginative, and sensual woman. But while crediting her successes, Lopate also looks at how her taste for aphorism and the radical high ground led her into exaggerations that could do violence to her own common sense, and how her ambition to be seen primarily as a novelist made her undervalue her brilliant essays. Honest yet sympathetic, Lopate’s engaging evaluation reveals a Sontag who was both an original and very much a person of her time.

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Table of contents: 

1. INTRODUCTION

2. Against Interpretation

3. Early Memories of Sontag

4. Politics and Personae

5. Bêtes Noires

6. Crisis as Starting Point

7. Are the Arts Progressive?

8. The Stylistics of Demystification

9. The Aphoristic Essay

10. The Film Essays

11. My Favorite Book of Hers

12. Readers Feeling Stupid

13. The Benefactor

14. Humor and Seriousness

15. Death Kit

16. Shallow America

17. The Volcano Lover

18. Performance Character and Theatre

19. The Essay Form Transgression and Innovation

20. Don’t Get Personal

21. Later Memories of Sontag

22. Writings on Photography

23. More on Politics

24. On 9/11 and Television

25. Greatness Besieged

26. Illness and Death

27. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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