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'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.
Laura Jansen is Associate Professor (Reader) of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol. She is General Editor of Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing (Bloomsbury), the author of Borges' Classics (Cambridge, 2018), and editor of The Roman Paratext (Cambridge, 2014), and Anne Carson/Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Sontag's Classics, Barely There, Somewhere * 1: Sontag's Classical World: From Against Interpretation to The Volcano Lover * 2: The Diaries and the Art of the Aphorism * 3: Night-Sides: Sontag and Sophocles on Bodily Suffering * 4: Art and the Nourishment of Consciousness: Sontag in Plato's and Kafka's Cave * 5: The Morality of Style: Sontag and Seneca * 6: Against Immersion * 7: The Writhing Laocoön: Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Suffering * 8: Fear of Flaying: Sontag, Language, Animality * 9: The Dream Machine: Plato and Lucretius * Epilogue: Sontag and the Archaeology of a Tangential Classics
* Introduction: Sontag's Classics, Barely There, Somewhere * 1: Sontag's Classical World: From Against Interpretation to The Volcano Lover * 2: The Diaries and the Art of the Aphorism * 3: Night-Sides: Sontag and Sophocles on Bodily Suffering * 4: Art and the Nourishment of Consciousness: Sontag in Plato's and Kafka's Cave * 5: The Morality of Style: Sontag and Seneca * 6: Against Immersion * 7: The Writhing Laocoön: Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Suffering * 8: Fear of Flaying: Sontag, Language, Animality * 9: The Dream Machine: Plato and Lucretius * Epilogue: Sontag and the Archaeology of a Tangential Classics
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