McRobbie, Angela. 1991. The Modernist Style of Susan Sontag. Feminist Review, 38, pp. 1-19. ISSN 0141-7789 [Article]

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Situating Sontag Who is Susan Sontag? Feminist and cultural analysis today suggests that we scrutinize the image, examine the photograph on the book jacket, in order that we can make some putative connexion between the woman and the work. Sontag has done this herself, in her well-known essay on Walter Benjamin, 'Under the sign of Saturn', where she fondly compares the photographic image of Benjamin as a younger man ('the downward look through his glasses - the soft daydreamer's gaze of the myopic') with that of him older, corpulent, weary ('The look is opaque, or just more inward: he could be thinking - or listening') (1983).

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.1991.16
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 1991 Published
Item ID:	14519
Date Deposited:	26 Oct 2015 15:54
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2017 14:44
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/14519

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