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Against Interpretation, and Other Essays

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. Book - 1966 809.04 So None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 2.5 out of 5

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"In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York in 2004"-- P. [4] of Cover.
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: an art of radical juxtaposition -- Notes on "Camp" -- One culture and the new sensibility -- Afterword: thirty years later.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux ; 1990, c1966.
Year Published: 1966
Description: xi, 312 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0312280866
9780312280864

SUBJECTS
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Criticism.