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简介：　　An anthology of unparalleled scope, "American Movie Critics" charts the rise of movies as art, industry, and mass entertainment. Here are the great movie critics who forged a forceful new vernacular idiom for talking about the new art, ?Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Richard Schickel, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Molly Haskell, among them. Here too are notable American writers, including Carl Sandburg, H. L. Mencken, Susan Sontag, and John Ashbery, weighing in on a range of cinematic experiences. The volumeas narrative continues to the present with a sampling of the best of todayas reviewers, including J. Hoberman, Roger Ebert, A. O. Scott, and Manohla Dargis. This paperback edition includes additional material reflecting the impact of the Internet and DVDs on film criticism.　　

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简介：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 intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays--the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.

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简介：As Booklist said, "Once readers discover this superb series, they will look forward to each new volume because each is distinctive, reflecting, as it does, the taste and perspective of the editor." This year Ian Frazier provides an unusually humorous and unpredictable selection, with a strong emphasis on family. The essays - from tall tale to riveting memoir - feature some of our most respected writers, including Susan Sontag, Roy Blount, Jr., Hilton Als, Thomas McGuane, and Joy Williams.

Illness as metaphor and AIDS and its metaphors

作者：  苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag)著;程巍译

出版社：麦田出版,2012

简介： 「疾病並非隱喻，而看待疾病的最真誠的方式－－同時也是患者對待疾病的最健康的方式，是盡可能消除或抵制隱喻性思考。然而，要居住在由陰森恐怖的隱喻構成各種風景的疾病王國而不蒙受隱喻的偏見，幾乎是不可能的。我寫作此文，是為了揭示這些隱喻，並藉此擺脫這些隱喻。」－－蘇珊．桑塔格.1987年，當桑塔格被診斷出罹患乳癌之後，她赫然發現我們早已發展出一套應付疾病的神話學，這套神話的誇張程度，經常扭曲了疾病的真相，讓病患備感孤立。.桑塔格提出，人們對某些疾病，尤其是癌症的迷思，不但給病患加諸更多的痛苦，且往往壓抑了他們去尋求適當治療的方法。她因此為文闡釋，去除了癌症的神祕面紗──癌症不過是一種疾病，而非詛咒或懲罰，當然更不是一件令人難堪的事。.十年後，另一種同樣被神祕化與污名化的疾病──愛滋病出現了，桑塔格再次寫下另一篇論文，針對愛滋病這種流行病，延伸了自己之前的論述。.《疾病的隱喻》一書主要闡釋三種曾被視為絕症的疾病，肺結核、癌、愛滋病，全書包含了〈疾病的隱喻〉與〈愛滋病及其隱喻〉兩篇論文，桑塔格剝除掉疾病千百年來在文化中被誤解的種種迷思，呈現出它們的真正意義。〈愛滋病及其隱喻〉更將她的評論範圍延伸到與愛滋病相關的種種隱喻，揭露真相，讓病患免於罪惡、羞恥和恐懼。本書已被翻譯成多國語言，對醫學專業人士，以及成千上萬的患者與照護者，造成了無比深遠的影響。.《疾病的隱喻》被譽為我們這個時代最解放人心的經典之作女性國家書會列為「改變世界的女性著述」這是一本關於疾病、死亡、美學、文學與社會的書，當我們的身體為疾病所苦之際，社會的論述如何解釋疫病的恐慌呢？

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简介：Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity -- a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured -- or incited -- to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity -- from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.

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简介：Hailed as the single most distinguished showcase for essays, The Best American Essays exhibits the finest writing from magazines and journals across the country. This year Susan Sontag has collected an extraordinary range of talent that includes such notables as Joan Didion, John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, and Stanley Elkin.

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简介："Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. Her provocative and exacting writings, engaging a wide range of aesthetic,cultural and political issues, have been the basis of a highly public and controversial intellectual career. This study provides a critical introduction to her essays and fiction, illustrating how her work is shaped by her role as a public intellectual within the New York tradition." "Liam Kennedy presents Sontag as a modernist 'writer-intellectual' who has produced a distinctive critical perspective on such diverse subjects as camp, pornographicliterature, fascist aesthetics, photography, illness and revolution. The book provides a detailed critical analysisof the poetics and politics of Sontag's intellectual eclecticism. She is presented as a singular interpreter and exponent of high modernist aesthetics who has built a major body of textual work around her strong 'sense of an ending', a perspective on late modernist culture which unites her diverse interests and spans her essays and fiction."--BOOK JACKET.

Regarding the Pain of Others

作者：  (美)苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag)著;陈耀成译

出版社：麦田出版,2004,2005重印)

简介： 這是蘇珊?桑塔格2003年的最新論著，也是繼《論攝影》之後，另一部深入探討影像與當代文化關係的力作。桑塔格在書中追溯了現代戰爭與攝影的演進，近代反戰運動的發展，以及影像與新聞、藝術和文化之間的複雜與曖昧。那些源源充斥於現代生活中的戰災影像，究竟是「記錄了」戰爭的原貌，還是「建構了」災難的神話？究竟是激起了我們對暴力的厭惡痛絕，還是磨平了我的同情心？旁觀他人的苦痛究竟是為了謹記教訓，還是為了滿足我們的邪淫趣味？觀看這些凶劫的影像究竟是要令我們堅硬一點以面對內心的軟弱？還是令我們更麻木？或令我們接受生命中不可挽回的創傷？而面對這類由照片所帶來的遠方災痛的知識，我們又該做些什麼？桑塔格這本書不僅讓我們重新思考影像的用途與意義，更直指戰爭的本質、同情的局限，以及良心的責任等重大議題。 < TOP>

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简介： A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.All three women would go on to become icons, key figures in American cultural, intellectual, and political life, but when they embarked for France, they were young, little-known, uncertain about their future, and drawn to the culture, sophistication, and drama that only Paris could offer. Yet their backgrounds and their dreams couldn’t have been more different. Jacqueline Bouvier was a twenty-year-old debutante, a Catholic girl from a wealthy East Coast family. Susan Sontag was twenty-four, a precocious Jewish intellectual from a North Hollywood family of modest means, and Paris was a refuge from motherhood, a failing marriage, and graduate work in philosophy at Oxford. Angela Davis, a French major at Brandeis from a prominent African American family in Birmingham, Alabama, found herself the only black student in her year abroad program—in a summer when all the news from Birmingham was of unprecedented racial violence.

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简介：Includes reviews and commentary by Vachel Lindsay, Hugo Munsterberg, Carl Sandburg, Robert E. Sherwood, Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, H.D., Alexander Bakshy, Harry Alan Potamkin, Gilbert Seldes, Pare Lorentz, William Troy, Cecilia Ager, Andre Sennwald, Rudolf Arnheim, Lincoln Kirstein, Meyer Levin, Otis Ferguson, Melvin B. Tolson, Paul Goodman, James Agee, Siegfried Kracauer, Robert Warshow, Ralph Ellison, Martha Wolfenstein, Nathan Leites, Barbara Deming, Manny Farber, Parker Tyler, Eugene Archer, Arlene Croce, Jonas Mekas, Stanley Kauffmann, Andrew Sarris, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Dwight MacDonald, Renata Adler, Donald Phelps, Vincent Canby, William S. Pechter, Molly Haskell, Paul Schrader, John Simon, Brendan Gill, Richard Corliss, James Baldwin, Penelope Gilliatt, Walter Kerr, J. Hoberman, Stanley Cavell, Richard Schickel, Armond White, David Denby, Geoffrey O'Brien, Paul Rudnick (aka Libby Gelman-Waxner), David Thomson, Bell Hooks, Kenneth Turan, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Roger Ebert, Stuart Klawans, James Harvey, Kent Jones, John Ashbery, Carrie Rickey, Gilberto Perez, A.O. Scott, and Manohla Dargis.

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简介：The first installment of Barthelme's complete oeuvre contains a compilation of short pieces and plays. Together they form a witty melange, entertaining and at the same time a substantial literary entree to be savored. Many of the works collected here defy classification. Barthelme himself was known to label a piece of writing a "whatchacallit." In the brief format of parodies and satires, Barthelme pokes fun at persons ranging from respondents to personals ads to a newly elected president. He also includes three previously unpublished plays: "The Friends of the Family," "The Conservatory," and "Snow White"; and profiles of T.S. Eliot, Django Reinhardt, Susan Sontag, and Willem de Kooning. Each piece reveals the author's piercing humor and brilliant observation. ISBN 0-679-40982-3:

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简介：     A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.        With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy—takes on the widely held belief that ours is an anti–intellectual society. Instead, while providing a richly reported overview of American thought, Romano argues that ordinary Americans see through phony philosophical justifications faster than anyone else, and that the best of our thinkers abandon artificial academic debates for fresh intellectual enterprises, such as cyberphilosophy. Along the way, Romano seeks to topple philosophy’s most fiercely admired hero, Socrates, asserting that it is Isocrates, the nearly forgotten Greek philosopher who rejected certainty, whom Americans should honor as their intellectual ancestor.         America the Philosophicalintroduces readers to a nation whose existence most still doubt: a dynamic, deeply stimulating network of people and places drawn together by shared excitement about ideas. From the annual conference of the American Philosophical Association, where scholars tack wiseguy notes addressed to Spinoza on a public bulletin board, to the eruption of philosophy blogs where participants discuss everything from pedagogy to the philosophy of science to the nature of agency and free will, Romano reveals a world where public debate and intellectual engagement never stop. And readers meet the men and women whose ideas have helped shape American life over the previous few centuries, from well-known historical figures like William James and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to modern cultural critics who deserve to be seen as thinkers (Kenneth Burke, Edward Said), to the iconoclastic African American, women, Native American, and gay mavericks (Cornel West, Susan Sontag, Anne Waters, Richard Mohr) who have broadened the boundaries of American philosophy.         Smart and provocative, America the Philosophicalis a rebellious tour de force that both celebrates our country’s unparalleled intellectual energy and promises to bury some of our most hidebound cultural clichés.

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简介：This bilingual collection of forty-four poems presents English readers with their first chance to encounter the phenomenon of Roberto Bolano as a poet: his own preferred and strongest literary persona. (When asked, 'What makes you believe that you're a better poet than a novelist?' Bolano replied, 'The poetry makes me blush less.') These poems intimate, moving, witty and wide-ranging are as diverse in form as his fiction and will offer the reader equal delight. Expertly translated from the original Spanish by Laura Healy, this is as an opportunity to encounter a poetic voice like no other; a voice hailed by Susan Sontag as 'the real thing and the rarest'. 'They radiate the audacity of intellect, as well as the cruelty of vision, that have won their author a devoted following.' Boston Review 'They [the poems] echo his brilliant but out-of-control authorial persona, with its high-speed, self-conscious verbal play, and those echoes will be more than enough to lead fans of his prose straight to his verse.' Publisher's Weekly 'Poems that unscroll like black-and-white movies or occupy the page like a tattoo, art and life entwine, and all is sinister and precious.' Booklist

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简介： For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic disease, the transformation of medicine into big business, the women’s health movement, the AIDS/HIV pandemic, the advent of inexpensive paperbacks, and the rise of self-publishing all contributed to the proliferation of narratives about encounters with medicine and mortality. ????? While the illness narrative is now a staple of the publishing industry, the genre itself has posed a problem for literary studies. What is the role of criticism in relation to personal accounts of suffering? Can these narratives be judged on aesthetic grounds? Are they a collective expression of the lost intimacy of the patient-doctor relationship? Is their function thus instrumental—to elicit the reader’s empathy? ????? To answer these questions, Ann Jurecic turns to major works on pain and suffering by Susan Sontag, Elaine Scarry, and Eve Sedgwick and reads these alongside illness narratives by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Reynolds Price, and Anne Fadiman, among others. In the process, she defines the subgenres of risk and pain narratives and explores a range of critical responses guided, alternately, by narrative empathy, the hermeneutics of suspicion, and the practice of reparative reading. ?????? Illness as Narrativeseeks to draw wider attention to this form of life writing and to argue for new approaches to both literary criticism and teaching narrative. Jurecic calls for a practice that’s both compassionate and critical. She asks that we consider why writers compose stories of illness, how readers receive them, and how both use these narratives to make meaning of human fragility and mortality.

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简介：This reader offers a broad scope and diversity of classic and contemporary selections -- and a narrative and format that presents difficult issues and readings in a simplified but not condescending manner. Covers the full range of philosophical questions. Organizes readings and narrative into topical sections, each of which addresses a particular facet of philosophical thought -- logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, esthetics, and social/political philosophy. Represents a wide range of philosophical styles and temperaments -- from Kant, Berkeley, Hume, and Descartes to Tolstoy, Sartre and Susan Sontag.

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简介："Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature - the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects - theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness - and courted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Throughout her career, she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. Her living was the embodiment of scandal. In this collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K. Miller, Wayne Koestenbaum, E. Ann Kaplan, and other leading scholars revisit Sontag's groundbreaking life and work. Against Interpretation, Notes on Camp, Letter from Hanoi, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, I, Etcetera, and The Volcano Lover - these works form the center of essays no less passionate and imaginative than Sontag herself. Debating questions raised by the thinker's own images and identities, including her sexuality, these works question Sontag's status as a female intellectual and her parallel interest in ambitious and prophetic fictional women; her ambivalence toward popular culture; and her personal and professional 'scandals." Paired with rare photographs and illustrations, this timely anthology expands our understanding of Sontag's images and power." -- Publisher's description.

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简介：Rare, out-of-print book, now available in limited quantities. In Violent Legacies the acclaimed photographer Richard Misrach compiles three "cantos" in his ongoing series of photographs exploring the desert of the American West. The desert has long been a metaphor in Misrach's art. Here, this barren land, so often romanticized, undergoes an eeri...   more 籩 transformation at the hands of man and becomes an unmistakable reflection of militarism, violence, and environmental destruction. Misrach's political commitment and activism--filtered through an ironic counterposing of form and content, as well as his exquisite use of color and composition--have never been as powerfully articulated as in these three new cantos, which are centered around the Utah deadlands and a former nuclear test site in Nevada. The late Susan Sontag contributes a subtle yet probing allegorical meditation on violence in contemporary society, and in a postscript interview, Misrach provides background information about the photographed sites.   ?less

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简介：In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unr...   more 籩cognizable to themselves. In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tend the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. And as Berger and Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life. First published thirty years ago, A Fortunate Manremains moving and deeply relevant--no other book has offered such a close and passionate investigation of the roles doctors play in their society. "In contemporary letters John Berger seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience."--Susan Sontag   ?less

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简介： A lost masterpiece and one of the major achievements of Russian literature in the second half of the 20th century. Summer in Baden-Badenwas acclaimed by The New York Review of Booksas "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Timesas "gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving." A complex, highly original novel, Summer in Baden-Badenhas a double narrative. It is wintertime, late December: a species of "now." A narrator—Tsypkinis on a train going to Leningrad. And it is also mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, and his wife, Anna Grigor'yevna, are on their way to Germany, for a four-year trip. This is not, like J. M. Coetzee's The Master of St. Petersburg, a Dostoyevsky fantasy. Neither is it a docu-novel, although its author was obsessed with getting everything "right." Nothing is invented, everything is invented. Dostoyevsky's reckless passions for gambling, for his literary vocation, for his wife, are matched by her all-forgiving love, which in turn resonates with the love of literature's disciple, Leonid Tsypkin, for Dostoyevsky. In a remarkable introductory essay (which appeared in The New Yorker), Susan Sontag explains why it is something of a miracle that Summer in Baden-Badenhas survived, and celebrates the happy event of its publication in America with an account of Tsypkin's beleaguered life and the important pleasures of his marvelous novel.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Examines the critical reception of Pop Art, identifying the American roots of deconstructive post-modernism.   Publisher Summary 2 Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism examines the critical reception of Pop Art in America during the 1960s. Comparing the ideas of New York-based critics such as Leo Steinberg, Susan Sontag, and Max Kozloff, Sylvia Harrison demonstrates how their ideas bear a striking similarity to the body of thought and opinion now associated with deconstructive postmodernism. Pop Art thus arises as not only a reflection of the dominance of mass communications and capitalist consumerism in postwar American society, but also a subversive commentary on worldviews and the factors necessary for their formation.