Styles of Radical Will
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First edition | |
| Author | Susan Sontag |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Criticism |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 1969 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-0312420215 |
Styles of Radical Will is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag published in 1969. Among the subjects discussed are film, literature, politics, and pornography. It is Sontag's second collection of non-fiction after Against Interpretation, which was published in 1966.[1] Most of the essays in this book were originally published in Aspen, Partisan Review, the Tulane Drama Review, Sight and Sound, and Esquire.
I.
- "The Aesthetics of Silence"
First appeared in Aspen in 1967. - "The Pornographic Imagination" (1967)
First appeared in Partisan Review in 1967. - ""Thinking Against Oneself": Reflections on Cioran"
Originally written as an introduction to the English translation of Emil Cioran's The Temptation to Exist in 1967.
II.
- "Theatre and Film"
First appeared in The Tulane Drama Review in 1966. - "Bergman's Persona"
First appeared in Sight and Sound in 1967. - "Godard"
First appeared in Partisan Review in 1968.
III.
- "What's Happening in America"
First appeared in Partisan Review in 1966. - "Trip to Hanoi"
First appeared in Esquire in 1968.