In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh Companions to Literature)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (607 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1474425607 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorMena Mitrano is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Chicago.
This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. The book is driven by new archival research and will have a multi-layered impact, changing our perception of Sontag as a post-Cold War public intellectual as well as interrogating key concepts in the Humanities.. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas in this study: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an 'unwritten theory' suggested by Sontag's subterranean engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag's identity as a non-traditional philosopher, through the extraordinary discipleship to Walter Benjamin
Mena Mitrano is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Chicago.