
Selected Essays | Merve Emre & Tobi Haslett on Susan Sontag (Bonus Episode!)
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The Importance of Ideology in Criticism
Sontag was a 19th century novel theorist who wrote essays. Her novels illuminate something about that sympathy and how that sympathy can have these excess political charges to it. The kinds of essays we're talking about really span very different genres of criticism, he says.
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