Against Interpretation and Other Essays
by:
Susan Sontag (author)
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against...
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First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312280864 (0312280866)
ASIN: 312280866
Publish date: August 25th 2001
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 396
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Art,
Culture,
Film,
Philosophy,
Theory
A note and some acknowledgmentsI--Against interpretation--On styleII--The artist as exemplary sufferer--Simone Weil--Camus' Notebooks--Michel Leiris' Manhood--The anthropologist as hero--The literary criticism of Georg Lukács--Sartre's Saint Genet--Nathalie Sarraute and the novelIII--Ionesco--Reflec...
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