Main entry:

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Title & Author:

Against interpretation / Susan Sontag.

Publication:

London : Vintage, 2001.

Description:

304 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1966.
Against interpretation -- On style -- Artist as exemplary sufferer -- Simone Weil -- Camus' Notebooks -- Michel Leiris' Manhood -- Anthropologist as hero -- Literary criticism of Georg Lukács -- Sartre's Saint Genet -- Nathalie Sarraute and the novel -- Ionesco -- Reflections on The deputy -- Death of tragedy -- Going to theater, etc. -- Marat/Sade/Artaud -- Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson -- Godard's Vivre sa vie -- Imagination of disaster -- Jack Smith's Flaming creatures -- Resnais' Muriel -- 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.

Summary:

A selection from the author's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture.

ISBN:

009938731X (paperback)
9780099387312 (paperback)

Subject:

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
Art criticism.
Literature History and criticism.
Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism.
Art and society.
Critique d'art.
Littérature Histoire et critique.
Littérature 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Art et société.
art criticism.
Literature.
Literature, Modern.
Criticism.
Motion pictures Aesthetics.
English prose
United States

Form/genre:

Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277124
Call No.: PN771 .S62 2001
Status: Available