What one remembers of Note on Camp (& much else by Sontag) is both its own style (beauty) & the fact that most of the theorizing that followed in her footsteps was only lengthy footnotes to what she had already implied (or outright said).
Why I read so little theory now but go back to writers like her & the equally brilliant in his own way Guy Davenport.
Doug
On 2011-02-19, at 11:49 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Chris, I do know how "camp" plays out as a current literary theory. I was
> referring to Susan Songtag's "Notes On Camp", first published in 1964. I think
> there were a total of 54 or so 'notes.' And it is interesting to me how they
> resonate in the work of Ashberry and O'Hara
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