Contravene, write ... About the pain of others of Susan Sontag
Regarding the pain of others challenges our knowledge, challenges what is held as true. We appreciate this attitude condensed in the verb “to defy”. We analyze how Sontag develops her hypothesis and, from that point onward, which is the idea of criticism that emerges from the writing of Regarding th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
2014-08-01
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Series: | Estudios de Teoría Literaria |
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Online Access: | http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/905 |
Summary: | Regarding the pain of others challenges our knowledge, challenges what is held as true. We appreciate this attitude condensed in the verb “to defy”. We analyze how Sontag develops her hypothesis and, from that point onward, which is the idea of criticism that emerges from the writing of Regarding the pain of others. Our analysis focuses on three of its topics: the reviewing of the ideas about the war that Virginia Woolf establishes on Three Guineas, the discussion of her own text On photography, and the criticism about Sebastião Salgado’s photography. |
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ISSN: | 2313-9676 |