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- ISBN-13
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- Book Title
- Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192870696
ISBN-13
9780192870698
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10073632109
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Publication Name
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics
Language
English
Subject
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
2025
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Series
Classical Presences Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
818.5409
Table Of Content
Introduction: Sontag's Classics, Barely There, Somewhere1. Sontag's Classical World: From Against Interpretation to The Volcano Lover2. The Diaries and the Art of the Aphorism3. Night-Sides: Sontag and Sophocles on Bodily Suffering4. Art and the Nourishment of Consciousness: Sontag in Plato's and Kafka's Cave5. The Morality of Style: Sontag and Seneca6. Against Immersion7. The Writhing Laocoon: Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Suffering8. Fear of Flaying: Sontag, Language, Animality9. The Dream Machine: Plato and LucretiusEpilogue: Sontag and the Archaeology of a Tangential Classics
Synopsis
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in whom the classical tradition emerges through traces, connections, and references in a broader context., Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of a prolific career as an essayist, diarist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist. The Greco-Roman classics play an intriguing part in this narrative of insatiable thirst for knowledge. Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics sets out to focus on this juncture in her work. Instead of offering an account of antiquity in Sontag, or of Sontag on antiquity, the collected chapters are specifically concerned with her as a case of a thinker in whom the classical tradition does not come into exclusive focus, but emerges tangentially--in often disparate and exiguous traces, connections, and references within a polymathic awareness. This volume examines Sontag's work and life to probe new strategies of plotting antiquity, when its presence in modernity is alluring yet barely there, and when the connective thread of influence seems to exist at breaking point. Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics directs our attention to a twentieth-century thinker who invites a markedly different perception of antiquity and its influence in her thought: at once captivating and light, provocative and uncertain., Susan Sontag (1933-2004) once declared: "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything'. Being interested in 'everything' had come naturally to me." This statement was made thirty years after the publication of Against Interpretation in 1966, towards the end of a prolific career as an essayist, diarist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist. The Greco-Roman classics play an intriguing part in this narrative of insatiable thirst for knowledge. Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics sets out to focus on this juncture in her work. Instead of offering an account of antiquity in Sontag, or of Sontag on antiquity, the collected chapters are specifically concerned with her as a case of a thinker in whom the classical tradition does not come into exclusive focus, but emerges tangentially-- in often disparate and exiguous traces, connections, and references within a polymathic awareness. This volume examines Sontag's work and life to probe new strategies of plotting antiquity, when its presence in modernity is alluring yet barely there, and when the connective thread of influence seems to exist at breaking point. Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics directs our attention to a twentieth-century thinker who invites a markedly different perception of antiquity and its influence in her thought: at once captivating and light, provocative and uncertain.
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