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Against interpretation and other essays / Susan Sontag.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin, 2009.Description: xi, 312 pagesISBN:
  • 9780141190068
  • 014119006X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818.54 SON
Contents:
Contents: Against interpretation ; On style ; 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 ; Ionesco ; Reflections on The deputy ; The death of tragedy ; Going to theater, etc -- ; Marat/Sade/Artaud ; 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 -- Piety without content -- Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown\'s Life against death -- Happenings -- Notes on Camp -- One culture and the new sensibility -- Afterword: Thirty years later (1996).
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 818.54 SON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100466326

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Contents: Against interpretation ; On style ; 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 ; Ionesco ; Reflections on The deputy ; The death of tragedy ; Going to theater, etc -- ; Marat/Sade/Artaud ; 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 -- Piety without content -- Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown\'s Life against death -- Happenings -- Notes on Camp -- One culture and the new sensibility -- Afterword: Thirty years later (1996).

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne's College, Oxford University. She was the author of 17 books including four novels, a collection of short stories, several plays, and eight works of nonfiction. Her novels are The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction. On Photography received the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and Art in America. She also wrote and directed four feature films and stage plays in the United States and Europe. She died from leukemia on December 28, 2004 at the age of 71.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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