Notes on Camp by Sontag, Susan

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Author: Sontag, SusanLiterary essaysPublished on 22 February 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Penguin Modern series.Paperback | 64 pages160 x 110 x 6 | 46g
The ultimate Camp statement: its good because its 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 Yorks underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.