BARTHES: SELECTED WRITINGS (Fontana Pocket Readers)

BARTHES, ROLAND

SONTAG, SUSAN

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

Barthes: Selected Writings

Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic "Against Interpretation", America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations and ideas. "Where The Stress Falls" records a great American writer's urgent engagement with some of the most significant aesthetic and moral issues of the late twentieth century, and provides a brilliant and clear-eyed appraisal of what is at stake, in this new century, in the survival of that inheritance.

Where the Stress Falls

Vintage

Susan Sontag's second collection of essays extends the investigations she undertook in "Against Interpretation", with essays on film, literature and politics, and a study of pornography.

Styles of Radical Will

Reference

In America

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage, UK

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 destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely with no expectations of discovering what it means. This collection of six lucid and invigorating essays, the most famous being "In Plato's Cave," make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society.

Susan Sontag On Photography /anglais

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Penguin Uk

Illness As Metaphor

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin??Books

From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and meanings of images, but about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.

Regarding the Pain of Others

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post-9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth-century's preeminent writers and thinkers.

At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.

On Photography

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