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Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
$30.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This work is a selection from Susan Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. First published in 1966, the book quickly became a modern classic and has had enormous influence here and abroad. As well as the title essay, 'On Style' and the famous 'Notes on Camp', the book includes ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Volume II of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks from 1964-1980.Providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, Susan Sontag's As Conscious is Harnessed to Fleshchronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at ...Show more
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and domin ...Show more
At The Same Time by Susan Sontag
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and th ...Show more
At the Same Time by Susan Sontag
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post-9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag's life and work, revealing why she re ...Show more
Epitaph of a Small Winner by William L. Grossman (Translator); Susan Sontag (Foreword by); Shari Frisch (Illustrator); Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph ...Show more
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. ...Show more
In America by Susan Sontag
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The story of "In America" is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of "Quo Vadis", Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few ...Show more
In America by Sontag, Susan
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1876 a group of Poles emigrates. Led by Poland
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
The ultimate Camp statement - 'it's good because it's awful'. These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
On Photography by Susan Sontag
$22.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' ha ...Show more