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"An invaluable contribution to the new wave of Sontag scholarship. Sontag rarely wrote--at least not publically--about the grand masters of contemporary theory but thanks to Mitrano's archival sleuthing, we now know that Sontag's personal papers and marginalia display no such reticence. More than merely excavating these tantalizing nuggets of intellectual history, Mitrano deploys them to trace Sontag's metamorphosis from a precocious student of philosophy into a great aesthetic voluptuary and public intellectual.--Roger Copeland, author of Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance Mitrano attends closely to matters of perception and style with the effect of perforating, through the conjoined forces of the critical practice depicted and the one at work in this book, the narrow confines of theory that persist to this day.--Laura Bieger ""ALH Online Review, Series XV 1"" Sontag returns to us in this heartfelt, deeply thought, re-evaluation of her critical legacy and intellectual creativity. Mitrano illuminates Sontag's debt to the Frankfurt School and deconstruction in writing a new kind of criticism that is personal and full of culturual insights.--E. Ann Kaplan, Stony Brook University Through detailed archival investigation and sensitive textual interpretation, In the Archive of Longing offers us a different Susan Sontag than we have seen previously: a Sontag with an unappreciated depth and breadth of engagement with major figures of European literary theory and philosophy.--Tyrus Miller, University of California at Santa Cruz"

Mitrano attends closely to matters of perception and style with the effect of perforating, through the conjoined forces of the critical practice depicted and the one at work in this book, the narrow confines of theory that persist to this day. --Laura Bieger, ALH Online Review, Series XV 1

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Mena Mitrano is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Chicago.

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