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Sontag / her life and work / Benjamin Moser.
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- ISBN: 9780062896391 : HRD
- ISBN: 0062896393 : HRD
- Physical Description: xiii, 816 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | "Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism" -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Women authors, American > 20th century > Biography. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main | Biography Sontag, Susan (Text) | 31307024006175 | Biography | Available | - |
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Sontag : Her Life and Work
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Table of Contents
Sontag : Her Life and Work
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction: Auction of Souls | p. 1 | |
| Part I | ||
| Chapter 1 | The Queen of Denial | p. 17 |
| Chapter 2 | The Master Lie | p. 29 |
| Chapter 3 | From Another Planet | p. 37 |
| Chapter 4 | Lower Slobbovia | p. 55 |
| Chapter 5 | The Color of Shame | p. 67 |
| Chapter 6 | The Bi's Progress | p. 79 |
| Chapter 7 | The Benevolent Dictatorship | p. 93 |
| Chapter 8 | Mr. Casaubon | p. 105 |
| Chapter 9 | The Moralist | p. 119 |
| Chapter 10 | The Harvard Gnostics | p. 133 |
| Part II | ||
| Chapter 11 | What Do You Mean by Mean? | p. 151 |
| Chapter 12 | The Price of Salt | p. 167 |
| Chapter 13 | The Comedy of Roles | p. 183 |
| Chapter 14 | All Joy or All Rage | p. 199 |
| Chapter 15 | Funsville | p. 223 |
| Chapter 16 | Where You Leave Off and the Camera Begins | p. 245 |
| Chapter 17 | God Bless America | p. 265 |
| Chapter 18 | Continent of Neurosis | p. 283 |
| Chapter 19 | Xu-Dan Xôn-Tac | p. 299 |
| Chapter 20 | Four Hundred Lesbians | p. 317 |
| Chapter 21 | China, Women, Freaks | p. 331 |
| Chapter 22 | The Very Nature of Thinking | p. 349 |
| Chapter 23 | Quite Unseduced | p. 363 |
| Part III | ||
| Chapter 24 | Toujours Fidèle | p. 381 |
| Chapter 25 | Who Does She Think She Is? | p. 403 |
| Chapter 26 | The Slave of Seriousness | p. 417 |
| Chapter 27 | Things That Go Right | p. 437 |
| Chapter 28 | The Word Won't Go Away | p. 459 |
| Chapter 29 | Why Don't You Go Back to the Hotel? | p. 475 |
| Chapter 30 | Casual Intimacy | p. 491 |
| Chapter 31 | This "Susan Sontag" Thing | p. 507 |
| Chapter 32 | Taking Hostages | p. 523 |
| Chapter 33 | The Collectible Woman | p. 535 |
| Part IV | ||
| Chapter 34 | A Serious Person | p. 551 |
| Chapter 35 | A Cultural Event | p. 569 |
| Chapter 36 | The Susan Story | p. 585 |
| Chapter 37 | The Calls Way | p. 599 |
| Chapter 38 | The Sea Creature | p. 611 |
| Chapter 39 | The Most Natural Thing in the World | p. 625 |
| Chapter 40 | It's What a Writer Is | p. 641 |
| Chapter 41 | A Spectator of Calamities | p. 655 |
| Chapter 42 | Can't Understand, Can't Imagine | p. 669 |
| Chapter 43 | The Only Thing That's Real | p. 683 |
| Epilogue: The Body and Its Metaphors | p. 699 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 707 | |
| Notes | p. 713 | |
| Bibliography | p. 775 | |
| Credits | p. 789 | |
| Index | p. 793 |
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