{"product_id":"understanding-susan-sontag-9781643360911","title":"Understanding Susan Sontag","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive account of the author's entire career through the lens of her recently published diaries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual, who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Susan Sontag\u003c\/i\u003e, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate classic texts such as \u003ci\u003eAgainst Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, providing both students and advanced scholars a renewed sense of her importance and impact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRollyson devotes separate chapters to Sontag's biography; her early novels; her landmark essay collections \u003ci\u003eAgainst Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStyles of Radical Will;\u003c\/i\u003e her films; her major mid-career books, \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and its sequel, \u003ci\u003eRegarding the Pain of Others\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eIllness as Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e and its sequel, \u003ci\u003eAIDS and Its Metaphors, \u003c\/i\u003e together with her groundbreaking short story, \"The Way We Live Now.\" Sontag's later essay collections and biographical profiles, collected in\u003ci\u003e Under the Sign of Saturn, Where the Stress Falls\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAt The Same Time: Essays and Speeches\u003c\/i\u003e, also receive a fresh assessment, as does her later work in short fiction, the novel, and drama, with a chapter discussing \u003ci\u003eI, etcetera\u003c\/i\u003e; two historical novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Volcano Lover\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn America\u003c\/i\u003e; and her plays, \u003ci\u003eA Parsifal, Alice in Bed, \u003c\/i\u003e and her adaptation of Ibsen's\u003ci\u003e The Lady from the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. Chapters on her diaries and uncollected prose, along with a primary and secondary bibliography, complete this comprehensive study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Rollyson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Understanding Contemporary American Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643360911","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43962537050249,"sku":"9781643360911","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b9c7bd24-b7e2-4549-ae20-1cd71665eea5.jpg?v=1746510509","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/understanding-susan-sontag-9781643360911","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}