How To Use Sontag In A Sentence
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Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ...
Making Light: Open thread 136
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According to Sontag, cancer is often ‘felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, and repugnant to the senses.’
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But amassing information for its own sake seemed contemptible to Sontag, or pitiable, and like so many young people who hope to lead the life of the mind, she despised what she considered to be the airlessness and rigidity of academic life.
Becoming Susan Sontag
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American feminist author Susan Sontag died at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering medical center at the age of 71, following a long struggle against cancer, the hospital announced.
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But there are plenty of times in this odd mismatch when Seligman the referee is the most absorbing person in the ring, not least when he's encouraging himself to make the most of Sontag.
Odd Couple
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Adapter and star Moe Angelos plays the young Sontag alongside a video projection of the older, more iconic Sontag also played by Angelos, who smokes and offers gnomic comments while observing the action.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Under The Radar and Coil Warm Up January
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I have no idea if that particular review is really where I first came encountered "hyaline", or if there's some conspiratorial agreement among critics that they should always describe Sontag's writing that way.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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Sontag was once famously described as the most intelligent woman in America.
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Sontag argued against what was in effect the differentiated mode of signification implicit in the assumptions of uptown culture.
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It was Susan Sontag, who said that being a dandy was a way of being an individual in an age of mass culture.
Media
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The untruth is that Susan Sontag once read a novel by Cathleen Schine and was so entertained by its subtle meditation on questions of female intellect and crippling illness that she borrowed its title for a play she’d been thinking about writing, a play about Alice James’ heroic struggle with cancer, all the while certain that nobody would ever make the connection or confront her with the possibility of influence.
Vitro Nasu » 2006 » July
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The death of Susan Sontag is a loss for the world, for friends, readers, and particularly for her son, David , himself a gifted writer.
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Marguerite Duras, Carlos Fuentes, and Susan Sontag, among others, expressed their "disquiet" even as they sought to remain loyal to the Cuban revolution.
Cuba Libre
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In the end, Susan Sontag may have been most notable as a photographic subject and for the querulous interview, of which she gave a bookful see "Conversations With Susan Sontag.
A Very Public Intellectual
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That strikes me as a very accurate picture of contemporary American culture: the intellectuals, like Harold Bloom and the late Susan Sontag, are all avowedly non-professional and non-aligned.
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In her essay on Elias Canetti, Sontag notes his admiration for the novelist Hermann Broch and those great patient novels 'The Death of Virgil' and 'The Sleepwalkers.'
A Very Public Intellectual
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I guess what I am saying is, the "conspiraloons" are focusing too much on the Power/Visor Consulting simulation, and they need to focus on the Israeli foreknowledge which is there in print in the Bild am Sontag 10th or 11th July 2005 edition.
If you are a conspiracy theorist....
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The kind of Family of Man photography that promotes an upbeat ‘love conquers all’ sentimentality Sontag finds morally reprehensible in its naivety.
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Finally my copy of Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonard Tsypkin which Susan Sontag posthumously tipped me the wink about in her book of essays At the Same Time and I'm delighted that the hardback edition that I tracked down contains her introduction.
54 entries from April 2007
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Sontag acknowledges that she is stating a commonplace when she notes the ‘erotic lure [of] things that are vile and repulsive’.
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As such, monuments are uniquely qualified to figure prominently in the ‘aesthetic of destruction,’ the imagination of disaster famously anatomized by Susan Sontag.
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However, Sontag uses the term ‘the semanticist paradigm of context’ to denote the common ground between society and class.
"Although people in humanities have always lamented the state of the field..."
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Under a storm of protest, Sontag at first hedged and then eventually dodged the issue.
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A single Sontag portrait is the kiss of death in any matchup of personality or charisma.
Odd Couple
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Christopher Hitchens, who has bravely risked isolation from former allies like Edward Said and Susan Sontag, let himself down in the Guardian when he taunted the peaceniks with: ‘Well, ha ha ha and yah, boo.’
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Finally, Sontag begins winding down the book by referencing themes that she first asserted in On Photography.
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Well, Sontag points to the ‘passionate bleakness’ of ‘a restless, chronically dissatisfied mind’ that offers us ‘moral fervency and gifts of compassion’.
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In that influential 1964 text, Sontag denounced what she termed a reactionary and philistine tendency to bury works of art underneath theory-heavy interpretations.
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That strikes me as a very accurate picture of contemporary American culture: the intellectuals, like Harold Bloom and the late Susan Sontag, are all avowedly non-professional and non-aligned.
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One critic praised Susan Sontag's writing even though he said he often disagreed with what she wrote.
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Sontag argued against what was in effect the differentiated mode of signification implicit in the assumptions of uptown culture.
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This thesis attempt to extract four representative articles Against Interpretation, On Style, On Camp One culture and a new sensibility to analyse Susan Sontag's early aesthetic ideas.
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But Tamara has more pressing problems than the technological revolution: desperate to escape from her precarious employment writing top ten lists for the paper's downmarket Psst! section "Corkers to Porkers – From Fab to Flab" is one of her triumphs, she dreams of ascending to the penthouse corridors of its cerebral stablemate S*nday, more likely to set before its discerning readers Sontag and Steiner than slappers and suntans.
The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review
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This thesis attempt to extract four representative articles Against Interpretation, On Style, On Camp One culture and a new sensibility to analyse Susan Sontag's early aesthetic ideas.
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Sontag's attack on interpretation was two-pronged and aimed at both works of art and art criticism.
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Antonin Artaud, Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti and Cioran himself were among the writers about whom Sontag wrote most enthusiastically.
A Very Public Intellectual
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Sontag ruffed and led a low spade – still on course for one down – and East won the trick with the nine.
An incredibly dramatic deal
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Susan Sontag is one of America's best known and respected essayists and novelists.
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Sontag was once famously described as the most intelligent woman in America.
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Sontag saw the consequence of living in this perpetual state of fear as ‘an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, our humanity’.
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Sontag has always been that rarity, a glamorous intellectual.
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The difference is that Sontag uses it charmlessly — but then she doesn't intend to be charming.
Odd Couple
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In Against Interpretation and Other Essays Susan Sontag criticizes the mainstream of modern criticism, which assumes that a work of art is content.
