In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism

Reads modernism and theory through Susan Sontag's archiveGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9781474414340','ISBN:9781474414357','ISBN:97814364']);This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theor...

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Main Author: Mitrano, Mena (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Summary:Reads modernism and theory through Susan Sontag's archiveGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9781474414340','ISBN:9781474414357','ISBN:97814364']);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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (224 pages) 14 B/W illustrations
ISBN:9781474414357
DOI:10.1515/9781474414357

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