Full name: Against Interpretation And Other Essays

Author: Susan Sontag Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780312280864 0312280866

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 the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Lévi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.This edition has a new afterword, "Thirty Years Later," in which Sontag restates the terms of her battle against philistinism and against ethical shallowness and indifference. Similar books: The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis Due Considerations by John Updike Hugging the Shore by John Updike Odd Jobs by John Updike How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport The Hunter Gracchus by Guy Davenport A Temple of Texts by William H. Gass Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag The Fun Stuff by James Wood The World Within the Word by William H. Gass Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick Imaginary homelands by Salman Rushdie The Broken Estate by James Wood Inner Workings by J. M. Coetzee