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The Way We Live Now: NEW The New York University offers a summary and commentary on our readerīs short story. Written by McEntyre and Marilyn Chandler. "The person at the center of the story serves as a mirror and sign of his friends' own vulnerability. They don't really know how to become a functioning healing and helping community, but figure it out as they go along." |
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The Way We Live Now: American Plays and the AIDS Crisis NEW is an Amazon.com synopsis page. |
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The AIDS Virus: Matter or Metaphor Val Turnerīs essay on "AIDS and its Metaphors" "Susan Sontag's little book, "AIDS and its Metaphors" begins with the words: "By metaphor I meant nothing more or less than the earliest and most succinct definition I know, which is Aristotle's, in his Poetics. "Metaphor", Aristotle wrote, "consists of giving the thing a name that belongs to something else"." |
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Amazonīs Review Page NEW for "Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors". "Brimming with humane and original ideas about a disease and the modern condition, this classic essay and its sequel -- written 10 years later -- are compassionate exhortations and a liberating event." |
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AIDS and Its Metaphors: NEW NY University published this summary and commentary by Jack Coulehan. "This essay is considerably less shrill and polemical than Illness as Metaphor. The author brings her own story (albeit only briefly) into the picture. The tone is more balanced as she discusses the themes of plague, invasion, and retribution surrounding AIDS." |
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Illness as Metaphor: NEW Another critical summary and review by Jack Coulehan. "Why is it unhealthy to think metaphorically about illness? What harm does it do to the sufferers? Has metaphoric thinking about TB or cancer inhibited our scientific study of them as diseases?" |
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AIDS and Its Metaphors: NEW Buy the essay at Amazon.com. |
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Susan Sontag : Mind As Passion NEW is another Amazon review page. "This study presents Sontag as a modernist "writer-intellectual" who has produced a distinctive critical perspective on such diverse subjects as camp, pornographic literature, fascist aesthetics, photography, AIDS, and revolution." |
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Conversations With Susan Sontag: NEW This review is offered by Amazon.com. "This chronological structure charts the progression of Sontag's books, the evolution of her viewpoints, and her rise in stature from a brash young critic mocking radical chic to a cancer survivor pondering the cultural dimensions of disease in Illness as Metaphor (1978)." |
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A Susan Sontag Reader NEW is once again offered by Amazon.com. Unfortunately, this site is not as comprehensive as the ones above. |
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Short Biography: NEW Some facts and dates on Susan Sontag as provided by the NY University. |
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Bedfordbooks NEW offer another Susan Sontag biography. "A noted writer of novels, short fiction, and screenplays, Sontag is commonly regarded as a cultural and literary critic, though she is not a typical critic." |
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More Sontag: NEW This site offers a short biography, a list of selected works, and suggestions for further reading on Susan Sontag. |
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