Where the Stress Falls (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Sontag
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Essays and literary criticism
- Time of Work: 1982-2001
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Writing, 1980’s, Reading, 1990’s, Literary criticism
In this collection of forty-one essays, published thirty-five years after the collection Against Interpretation launched Sontag’s reputation as one of the most important American intellectuals, Sontag reaffirms her commitment, as she says of the painter Howard Hodgkin, “to work on behalf of, in praise of, beauty.” Sontag comes not to bury but to praise what she has encountered in her travels through books, museums and galleries, darkened theaters, dance and music halls, and even foreign geographies, where she has sought out such exotica as garden grottoes and volcanoes....
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