Sontag and Kael : Opposites Attract Me

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Book Description: Counterpoint, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 8vo - over 7.75" - 9.75" tall. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 231 pages. 8.00 x 5.70 x 0.80 in. 15.2 oz. For fans of high culture, pop culture and American genius, a personal and idiosyncratic exploration of two of the 20th century's most distinguished cultural icons. -- With wit and style worthy of his subjects, Craig Seligman explores the enduring influence of two critics who defined the cultural sensibilities of a generation: Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael. Though outwardly they had several things in common--they were both Westerners who came east, both schooled in philosophy, both secular Jews, and both single mothers--they were polar opposites in temperament and approach. From the very beginning Seligman makes his sympathies clear: Sontag is a writer he reveres; but Kael is a writer he loves. -- He approaches both critics through their work, whose fundamental parallels serve to sharpen their differences. Tone is the most obvious area where they're at odds. Kael practiced a kind of verbal jazz, exuberant, excessive, intimate, emotional, and funny. Sontag is formal and a little icy--a model of detachment. Kael never changed her approach from her first review to her last, while mutability has been one of the defining motifs of Sontag's career. Moral questions obsess Sontag; they interested Kael but didn't trouble her. Then there's the matter of self-revelation. Under Sontag's aloofness smolders an impulse toward autobiography so strong that it isn't an exaggeration to call it confessional. Kael seems to be terribly intimate and forthcoming, and yet she turns out, when you peer closely, to be surprisingly guarded. -- But the question that Seligman keeps coming back to is: Can criticism be art? In seeking to answer it, he performs an unusual and remarkable feat: he has produced a nuanced, luminously written examination that stands as an answer in itself. Craig Seligman adored his friend Pauline Kael for her easy acceptance of pop culture in the context of her fiercely intelligent movie reviews. He writes approvingly of her here, even as he writes with less tolerance of a critic he feels is equally important, Susan Sontag. Sontag, Seligman feels, is arrogant and elitist and, worst of all, humorless.Elaine Bartlett served 16 years in a New York State prison for smuggling four ounces of cocaine from New York to Albany. Incarcerated in 1983, she was granted clemency in 1999, and immediately began working to repeal the punitive Rockefeller drug laws. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004. The attraction of Seligman's book is its invitation to have an argument--not with him, but with Kael and Sontag. He gives us all the material for such a three-cornered quarrel. It's a curious work, though., and the wonder is that the trick comes off. -- New York Times Book Review - Michael Wood (05/30/2004). Remainder. Bookseller Inventory # C1582433119

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