Against interpretation : and other essays / Susan Sontag.

By:

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, 1961Description: xi, 312 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780141190068 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 809.04 SON 014359

LOC classification:

PN771 .S62 1990

Summary: ESSAYS, JOURNALS, LETTERS & OTHER PROSE WORKS. 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. 'A dazzling intellectual performance.' Vogue.

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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, c1966.

First published: 1961.

ESSAYS, JOURNALS, LETTERS & OTHER PROSE WORKS. 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. 'A dazzling intellectual performance.' Vogue.

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