
Notes on Sontag
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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.
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List of Abbreviations, pg. v
Introduction, pg. 1
Against Interpretation, pg. 23
Early Memories of Sontag, pg. 37
Politics and Personae, pg. 47
Bêtes Noires, pg. 66
Crisis as Starting-Point, pg. 79
Are the Arts Progressive?, pg. 83
The Stylistics of Demystification, pg. 88
The Aphoristic Essay, pg. 93
The Film Essays, pg. 99
My Favorite Book of Hers, pg. 111
Readers Feeling Stupid, pg. 129
The Benefactor, pg. 135
Humor and Seriousness, pg. 141
Death Kit, pg. 143
Shallow America, pg. 149
The Volcano Lover, pg. 159
Performance, Character, and Theatre, pg. 166
The Essay Form, Transgression, and Innovation, pg. 171
Don't Get Personal, pg. 174
Later Memories of Sontag, pg. 184
Writings on Photography, pg. 202
More on Politics, pg. 217
On 9/11 and Television, pg. 223
Greatness Besieged, pg. 227
Illness and Death, pg. 233
Acknowledgments, pg. 247
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