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1、Unit12SocialCriticwithVerve充满活力的社会批评家verve：anenergeticstyle；vitalityThatmagazinehasalotofverve.那个杂志办得很有生气。Theaudiencerosetohisverveandwit.观众们对他生气勃勃和富于机智的表演热烈喝彩。BackgroundInformationSusanSontag（1933~2004）Novelist,essayistandcritic.Ahighlyvisiblepublicfiguresincethemid-1960's,Ms.S
2、ontagwrotefournovels,dozensofessaysandavolumeofshortstoriesandwasalsoanoccasionalfilmmaker,playwrightandtheaterdirector.Forfourdecadesherworkwaspartofthecontemporarycanon作品,discussedeverywherefromgraduateseminarstothepagesofpopularmagazinestotheHollywoodmovie.Ms.Sontag'sworkmade
3、aradicalbreakwithtraditionalpostwarcriticisminAmerica.Sheadvocatedanaestheticapproachtothestudyofculture,championingstyleovercontent."ThethemethatrunsthroughSusan'swritingisthislifelongstruggletoarriveattheproperbalancebetweenthemoralandtheaesthetic,"LeonWieseltier,literaryedito
4、rofTheNewRepublicandanoldfriendofMs.Sontag's,saidMs.Sontag'sbest-knownbooks,allpublishedbyFarrar,Straus&Giroux,includethenovels"DeathKit"(1967)《死亡匣子》,"TheVolcanoLover"(1992)and"InAmerica"(2000);theessaycollections"AgainstInterpretation"(1966),"StylesofRadicalWill"(1969)《激进意志的样式》
5、and"UndertheSignofSaturn"(1980)《在土星的标志下》;thecriticalstudies"OnPhotography"(1977)and"AIDSandItsMetaphors"(1989);andtheshort-storycollection"I,Etcetera"(1978)《我，及其他》.Oneofhermostfamousworks,however,wasnotabook,butanessay,"NotesonCamp,"publishedin1964andstillwidelyread.Widelyregard
6、edasoneoftheleadingAmericanintellectuals,SusanSontaghelpedshapemodernAmericanthinkingfornearlyhalfacentury.ReadthefollowingandknowmoreaboutMs.Sontag.Ms.SontagwasbornSusanRosenblattinManhattanonJan.16,1933,thedaughterofJackandMildredRosenblatt.HerfatherwasafurtraderinChina,andher
7、motherjoinedhimthereforlongperiods,leavingSusanandheryoungersisterinthecareofrelatives.WhenSusanwas5,herfatherdiedinChinaoftuberculosis.HermothermovedthefamilytoTucson[tu:'sɔn]图森[美国亚利桑那州南部城市],spendingthenextseveralyearsthere.InArizona,Susan’smothermetCapt.NathanSontag,aWorldWarI
8、Iveteransenttheretorecuperate[ri'kju:pəreit]v.恢
