Sontag

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Susan, 1933–2004, U.S. critic, novelist, and essayist.

Sontag

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SontagSusan19332004FUSPHILOSOPHY: intellectualWRITING: essayist Susan. 1933–2004, US intellectual and essayist, noted esp for her writings on modern culture. Her works include `Notes on Camp' (1964), `Against Interpretation' (1968), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978), and the novel The Volcano Lover (1992)

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In her epochal essay “Against Interpretation,” Susan Sontag concluded with a memorable flourish: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”

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Sontag wrote that to talk about camp is to betray it, and she’s right.

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It's camp in the best sense — what Sontag must have had in mind when she described the state of being "bad to the point of enjoyable."

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He could riff in his writings on the cultural theories of Susan Sontag, Lionel Trilling and R.D.

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She is also set to play queer feminist icon and writer Susan Sontag in an upcoming biopic directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Kirsten Johnson.

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