Against Interpretation and Other Essays
by:
Susan Sontag (author)
"Against Interpretation" was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them "On Style", "Notes...
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"Against Interpretation" was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation", where Sontag argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a new critical approach to aesthetics.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141190068 (014119006X)
Publish date: June 1st 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 336
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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