An edition of Against Interpretation: and other essays
(1966)
Against interpretation
and other essays
by Susan Sontag and Tavia Gilbert
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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." (Source)
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Criticism, Collected works, History and criticism, Modern Literature, Interpretation, Literatur, Bibel, Ästhetik, Avantgardeliteratur, Avant Garde, Literaturkritik, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century, 20th century, Addresses, essays, lectures, Littérature, Filmkunst, Toneel, Letterkunde, Frans, Critique, Motion Pictures, Drama, Writing, HistoryTimes
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Table of Contents
1.
Against interpretation --
On style -- -- 2.
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 novel -- -- 3.
Ionesco --
The death of tragedy --
Going to theater, etc. --
Marat/Sade/Artaud -- -- 4.
Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson --
Godard's Vivre sa vie --
The imagination of disaster --
Jack Smith's Flaming creatures --
Resnais' Muriel --
A note on novels and films -- -- 5.
Piety without content --
Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life against death --
Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition --
Notes on "Camp" --
One culture and the new sensibility.
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