Can I read Notes on Sontag (Writers on Writers, 2) on EtoBox?

Notes on Sontag (Writers on Writers, 2) by Sontag, Susan;Lopate, Phillip is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Notes on Sontag (Writers on Writers, 2) about?

Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the "foremost interpreters of . . . our recent contemporary moment." Adopting Sontag's favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle around a topic from different perspectives, renowned essayist Phillip Lopate considers the achievements and limitations of his tantalizing, daunting subject through what is fundamentally a conversation between two writers. Reactions to Sontag tend to be polarized, but Lopate's account of Sontag's significance to him and to the culture over which she loomed is neither hagiography nor hatchet job. Despite admiring and being inspired by her essays, he admits a persistent ambivalence about Sontag. Lopate also describes the figure she cut in person through a series of wry personal anecdotes of his encounters with her over the years. Setting out from middle-class California to invent herself as a European-style intellectual, Sontag raised the bar of critical discourse and offered up a model of a freethinking, imaginative, and sensual woman. But while crediting her successes, Lopate also looks at how her taste for aphorism and the rad

Who reads Notes on Sontag (Writers on Writers, 2)?

Author

Sontag, Susan;Lopate, Phillip

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400829873

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Collections

Updated

2026-03-24