In the Archive of Longing

Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism

Mena Mitrano

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English

Edinburgh University Press
31 October 2017

Prose: non-fiction; Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature

Reads modernism and theory through Susan Sontag's archive This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas in this study: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an 'unwritten theory' suggested by Sontag's subterranean engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag's identity as a non-traditional philosopher, through the extraordinary discipleship to Walter Benjamin. The book is driven by new archival research and will have a multi-layered impact, changing our perception of Sontag as a post-Cold War public intellectual as well as interrogating key concepts in the Humanities.

Key Features Original study of Susan Sontag's contribution to the development of critical thoughtOpens new avenues for research in the expanding field of new modernist studies and in the field of criticismDiscusses Sontag's collaboration with Walter Benjaminwhich reopens the question of the author and encourages an understanding of this concept from a psychoanalytic perspective, as a transgenerational phenomenonIncludes a discussion of the role of the American avant-garde in Sontag's abandonment of philosophy and in her turn to a pioneering, more theoretical literary criticism

Edited by: Mena Mitrano
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 172mm,
ISBN: 9781474425605
ISBN 10: 1474425607
Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature
Pages: 500
Publication Date: 31 October 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Undefined
Publisher's Status: Active

Mena Mitrano is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Chicago.

Reviews for In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism

"An invaluable contribution to the new wave of Sontag scholarship. Sontag rarely wrote--at least not publically--about the grand masters of contemporary theory but thanks to Mitrano's archival sleuthing, we now know that Sontag's personal papers and marginalia display no such reticence. More than merely excavating these tantalizing nuggets of intellectual history, Mitrano deploys them to trace Sontag's metamorphosis from a precocious student of philosophy into a great aesthetic voluptuary and public intellectual.--Roger Copeland, author of Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance Mitrano attends closely to matters of perception and style with the effect of perforating, through the conjoined forces of the critical practice depicted and the one at work in this book, the narrow confines of theory that persist to this day.--Laura Bieger ""ALH Online Review, Series XV 1"" Sontag returns to us in this heartfelt, deeply thought, re-evaluation of her critical legacy and intellectual creativity. Mitrano illuminates Sontag's debt to the Frankfurt School and deconstruction in writing a new kind of criticism that is personal and full of culturual insights.--E. Ann Kaplan, Stony Brook University Through detailed archival investigation and sensitive textual interpretation, In the Archive of Longing offers us a different Susan Sontag than we have seen previously: a Sontag with an unappreciated depth and breadth of engagement with major figures of European literary theory and philosophy.--Tyrus Miller, University of California at Santa Cruz"