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Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

2001 ·
·3.95·2,379 Ratings ·183 Pages
“ Respond to every call that excites your spirit. ” ― Rumi
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  • At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

    2007·
    ·3.95·538 Ratings
    "A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brillianc
  • Selected Stories

    2002·
    ·4.22·1,105 Ratings
    How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a Paul Klee in words, maker of droll, whimsical, tender, and heartbreak
  • A Barthes Reader

    1983·
    ·4.05·174 Ratings
    A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell
  • Plays: Maria Irene Fornes

    2001·
    ·4.02·164 Ratings
    The celebrated playwright, director, translator, lyricist, and seven-time Obie Award winner, has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades and a highly-regarded teacher of playwriting. Includes: Mud, The Danube, Sarita, and
  • On Photography

    1979·
    ·3.8·28,756 Ratings
    First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of 'transparency'. When anything can be photographed and photography has destro
  • Regarding the Pain of Others

    2004·
    ·4.02·7,008 Ratings
    Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are vie
  • I, etcetera

    2002·
    ·3.74·685 Ratings
    In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intelle
  • Styles of Radical Will

    2002·
    ·4.14·386 Ratings
    Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.
  • Where the Stress Falls: Essays

    2003·
    ·3.82·260 Ratings
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