Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to

Against Interpretation: And Other Essays (Sontag Susan)(Paperback)

Includes the essay 'Notes on Camp,' the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone

At the Same Time (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent writers and

Stories - Collected Stories (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Styles of Radical Will (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', an account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi', written during the Vietnam War. It features writings on art, film,

Reborn - Early Diaries 1947-1963 (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Under the Sign of Saturn - Essays (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Brings together the author's important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as an analysis of

A Susan Sontag Reader (Sontag Susan)(Paperback)

Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they deserve. Sontag is above all a writer, which is only to say that, though the form may differ,

The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (Makhno Nestor)(Paperback)

A collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. 'The Struggle Against the State and other Essays' sheds valuable insight onto the man and the movement that bore his

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Sontag Susan)(Paperback)

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as one of the most liberating books of its time. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the

On Photography (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing

On Photography (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This book examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our

Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays (Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm)(Paperback / softback)

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows cancer for what it

Against Amazon: And Other Essays (Carrin Jorge)(Paperback)

A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter--and, most urgently, a

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)

Volcano Lover - A Romance (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century, this title examines the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment. It presents a picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and

Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview (Cott Jonathan)(Paperback)

Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career 'A humanizing interview with the late cultural icon, who was often perceived as a fiercely aggressive and polarizing intellect.'--Kirkus Reviews Susan Sontag, one of the most

In America (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few

Against the Double Blackmail - Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours (Zizek Slavoj)(Paperback / softback)

Benefactor (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real

How Not to be a Doctor - And Other Essays (Launer John)(Paperback / softback)

The essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humour, candour, and the human touch. They show how, in medicine, you cannot separate personal experiences from professional ones, in short stories and reflections that will inform and entertain readers on both ends of the

I Might Regret This - Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff (Jacobson Abbi)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir in essays by Abbi Jacobson, the co-creator and co-star of hit comedy series Broad

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays (Messud Claire)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of personal and critical essays on everything from childhood to womanhood, literature to visual arts and the relationship between form and meaning in