In the Archive of Longing (English, Mena Mitrano)

Product description Review Select Guide Rating From the Back Cover *APPROVED*Reads modernism and theory through Susan Sontag’s archiveThis adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an ‘unwritten theory’ suggested by Sontag's engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag's identity as a non-traditional philosopher. The book is driven by new archival research and will have a multi-layered impact, changing our perception of Sontag as a post-Cold War public intellectual as well as interrogating key concepts in the Humanities.Mena Mitrano is Adjunct Professor of Literature at the John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Gertrude Stein: Woman without Qualities (2006) and the co-editor of The Hand of the Interpreter: Essays on Meanings after Theory (2008). About the Author 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.Mena Mitrano is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Chicago. Read more