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Styles of Radical Will

by Susan Sontag · 1969 · 288 pages

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Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretationwith essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.

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Subject
literary criticismphilosophypoliticssocial science
Themes
artmoviesfeminismwomen
Setting
north america
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages
Form
essays

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