Conversations with Susan Sontag (Literary Conversations) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878058346 ISBN 13: 9780878058341

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1995

Synopsis

Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag’s education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag’s rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic.

Born in New York City, reared in Arizona and California, educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne, appointed to teaching positions in English, philosophy, and religion, she is a woman whose restlessly independent and resolutely transcultural temperament was already well established when she boxed up the manuscript of The Benefactor and submitted it to Farrar & Straus in 1962. By 1992, when her much acclaimed novel The Volcano Lover: A Romance was published, The Benefactor alone

About this title

About the Author

Leland Poague, a professor of English at Iowa State University, is editor of Conversations with Susan Sontag and Frank Capra: Interviews, both published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also author of Another Frank Capra and The Cinema of Frank Capra: An Approach to Film Comedy.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878058346
• ISBN 13: 9780878058341
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Poague Leland