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Notes on Camp
Sontag Susan · 2018 · 64 pages
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
“You think you're safe from criticism because your look is bad on purpose. f*ck that! Take a stand, you pussy bitch! I take great offense to this as a person whose look is bad on accident, and Susan Sontag agrees with me. In "Notes on Camp," she distinguishes between: - [Susan] "Naive and deliberate camp. "Pure camp is always naive. "Camp which knows itself to be camp, or camping, "is usually less satisfying." - Sontag defines naive camp as failed seriousness, a grand artistic vision that gets a little outta control and enters into absurd territory.”
