Creative Quotations from . . .
Susan Sontag
(1933-2004) born on
Jan 16
US "author, critic". "She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art."
 
   
F
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family -- and, often, is all that remains of it."

R
"A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter."
A
""Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated."
N
A fiction about soft or easy deaths. . . is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
K
"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "On Photography, "In Plato's Cave" (1977)."
R: ""Illness As Metaphor," ch. 7, 1978."
A: "Against Interpretation and Other Essays," Farrar, Straus & Giroux 66"
N: ""AIDS and Its Metaphors," ch. 4, 1989."
K: ""Against Interpretation," "The Literary Criticism of George Luk cs," 1966."
   



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