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Article: Sontag's Barthes: a portrait of the aesthete.(Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes)(Critical essay)
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- January 1, 2007
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Though it is clear that "aestheticism" and "dandyism" are not mutually interchangeable terms, most observers would agree that the two enjoy a harmonious convergence in the person of Oscar Wilde, as it has been constructed, not least by himself. Wilde the aesthetic dandy, the dandified aesthete, wearer of the violoncello coat and disciple of Pater, the playwright and the essayist, is an important figure for Susan Sontag. The "besotted aesthete," as she calls herself (Salmagundi Interview 331), (1) inscribes her work in a filiation consciously inflected by Wilde. The most obvious instance of this occurs, of course, in "Notes on 'Camp,'" fragments written between the lines ...
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...Diana Knight. Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing ... is the photograph reproduced by Roland Barthes in the first part of Camera Lucida ... however, just one of many forms taken by Barthes's engagement with utopia, and it is ...
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