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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

"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"

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Mena Mitrano is Associate Professor of American literature and language in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research area is theoretical-critical thought, which she explores from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her work covers major critical theorists (Walter Benjamin), psychoanalysis (Ferenczi), great women thinkers (Hannah Arendt). She is the author of studies on Gertrude Stein and Susan Sontag, major American women intellectuals who shaped the link between modernism and theory: Gertrude Stein: Woman Without Qualities (2005) and In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh University Press 2016). She has written on language and literature and is interested in exploring literary/philosophical borders. She was educated at Rutgers University and has been a Research Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke College.

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