This 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.

*APPROVED* Reads modernism and theory through Susan Sontag's archive This 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).