...Martha Stoddard Holmes Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors critique the use of metaphoric language, particularly military metaphors of invasion and battle, to describe illness experiences. Metaphors generate explanatory narratives, just as stories often use a resonant...

..., it suggests, names an interpretational hesitation between generic frames like comedy and tragedy. In his bawdy double entendres, James provides a kind of resting place from what Susan Sontag has called the “excruciating” tonal textures of his major phase. Henry James The Sacred Fount The Golden Bowl...

... about Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor . Technically, this manifesto about the pitfalls of using metaphor to describe illness starts with—well, some metaphors. “Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship,” Sontag ( 2001 : 3) writes. “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship...

... . Sauvageau Guy Keith Humphries R. . 2010 . “The Blood Stem Cell Holy Grail?” Science 329 : 1291 – 92 . Sontag Susan . 1978 . Illness as Metaphor . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Thompson Larry . 1988 . “Mapping the Human Genes: Is the Mega-Project Politically...

... . Sontag Susan . 1978 . Illness as Metaphor . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Stiles William Angus Lynne . 2001 . “Qualitative Research on Clients' Assimilation of Problematic Experience in Psychotherapy.” Special issue , Psychologische Beitrage 43 ( 3s ): 570 – 85...

... with Contradictions: Critical Practices in the Age of Supply-Side Aesthetics.” Over Exposed. Essays on Contemporary Photography . Ed. Squiers Carol . New York : New , 1999 . 247 - 68 . Sontag Susan . “The Aesthetics of Silence.” A Susan Sontag Reader . New York : Vintage , 1983 . 181...

... . Sontag Susan . (1966) 2001 . Against Interpretation, and Other Essays . New York : Picador . ———. 1996 . “The Decay of Cinema.” New York Times , February 25 , Books section . Wyers Frances . 1981 . “Manuel Puig at the Movies.” Hispanic Review 49 , no. 2 : 163 – 81...

... to be culturally respectable and helped inspire the aesthetic of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (1967 – 73) and Sesame Street (1971 – ). In 1964, from the pages of the Partisan Review, Susan Sontag’s description of camp also challenged the moral seriousness Trilling represented.11 A few months later Son- tag...

... . Siebert Charles . Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral . New York : Crown , 1998 . Solomon Deborah . Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1997 . Sontag Susan . “Notes on Camp.” A Susan Sontag Reader . 1982 . New York...

... Novels . By Firbank Ronald . New York : New Directions , 1961 . Sontag Susan . Against Interpretation . 1966 . New York : Doubleday , 1990 . Theocritus . The Idyls . Ed. and Trans. Wells Robert . London : Penguin , 1989 . Wells Robert . Introduction...

.... In “The Aesthetics of Silence” Susan Sontag (1969, 17 – 18) argues that silence is an escape hatch for that which bears the burden of giving meaning: “In its most hortatory and ambitious version, the advocacy of silence expresses a mythic project of total liberation. What’s envisaged is nothing less...

... Art and Radical Chic . London : Ashgate . Snediker Michael D. 2008 . Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Sontag Susan . 1977 . On Photography . New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux . Suarez...

... desire)? Does contemporary capitalism cause the opioid epidemic, or does the opioid epidemic cause more capitalism? Does life in the United States explain opioids, or do opioids explain life in the United States? This explanatory circularity, which, as Susan Sontag ( 1978 ) famously observes, emerges...

... and satisfaction of their occupants. "Who can say it isn't beautiful Byrne asks ambiguously. This ludic, post- Sontag, profoundly superficial imaginary perspective of the all-too-real land- scape might be taken as a reminder of Nietzsche. Existentialism, of course, has its ethical component...

... Sontag, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and others were all pushing the language of criticism in new directions, at times deliberately blurring the boundary between the critical and the poetic. Bloom himself framed The Anxiety of Influence with two prose poems, and his style throughout that book...