LEADER 04146nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910807939403321 005 20230721022459.0 010 $a1-282-15797-3 010 $a9786612157974 010 $a1-4008-2987-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400829873 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788465 035 $a(EBL)457856 035 $a(OCoLC)437268357 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000212425 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173609 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212425 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10138363 035 $a(PQKB)11708387 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457856 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36629 035 $a(DE-B1597)446818 035 $a(OCoLC)979954297 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400829873 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457856 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312507 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215797 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788465 100 $a20080918d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNotes on Sontag /$fby Phillip Lopate 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 225 1 $aWriters on writers 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13570-3 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tNotes on Sontag -- $tAgainst Interpretation -- $tEarly Memories of Sontag -- $tPolitics and Personae -- $tBêtes Noires -- $tCrisis as Starting-Point -- $tAre the Arts Progressive? -- $tThe Stylistics of Demystification -- $tThe Aphoristic Essay -- $tThe Film Essays -- $tMy Favorite Book of Hers -- $tReaders Feeling Stupid -- $tThe Benefactor -- $tHumor and Seriousness -- $tDeath Kit -- $tShallow America -- $tThe Volcano Lover -- $tPerformance, Character, and Theatre -- $tThe Essay Form, Transgression, and Innovation -- $tDon't Get Personal -- $tLater Memories of Sontag -- $tWritings on Photography -- $tMore on Politics -- $tOn 9/11 and Television -- $tGreatness Besieged -- $tIllness and Death -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aNotes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the "foremost interpreters of . . . our recent contemporary moment." Adopting Sontag's favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle around a topic from different perspectives, renowned essayist Phillip Lopate considers the achievements and limitations of his tantalizing, daunting subject through what is fundamentally a conversation between two writers. Reactions to Sontag tend to be polarized, but Lopate's account of Sontag's significance to him and to the culture over which she loomed is neither hagiography nor hatchet job. Despite admiring and being inspired by her essays, he admits a persistent ambivalence about Sontag. Lopate also describes the figure she cut in person through a series of wry personal anecdotes of his encounters with her over the years. Setting out from middle-class California to invent herself as a European-style intellectual, Sontag raised the bar of critical discourse and offered up a model of a freethinking, imaginative, and sensual woman. But while crediting her successes, Lopate also looks at how her taste for aphorism and the radical high ground led her into exaggerations that could do violence to her own common sense, and how her ambition to be seen primarily as a novelist made her undervalue her brilliant essays. Honest yet sympathetic, Lopate's engaging evaluation reveals a Sontag who was both an original and very much a person of her time. 410 0$aWriters on writers. 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a818/.5409 686 $a18.06$2bcl 700 $aLopate$b Phillip$f1943-$0604921 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807939403321 996 $aNotes on Sontag$94041142 997 $aUNINA