Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society
Against interpretation, and other essays
A classic essay collection that criticizes interpretive excess and asks readers to attend to form and sensuous experience. It is Susan Sontag's most influential early book.
Work Information
A foundational Sontag book that rethinks what criticism should do.
Its argument that readers should attend to surfaces and form rather than dig endlessly for hidden meaning remains striking. The book is still a reference point in twentieth-century criticism.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Published
- 1985-12-31
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780374520403
- ISBN-10
- 0374520402
- Price
- 3290 JPY
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Reviews
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Book of essays by Sontag
These essays make you think.
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GIVING THE STARS TO MS. SANTOG. She is one of the most articulate 20th c critical writers. Love her!
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Debatable essays from a principal stylist
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This was a ground breaking collection of essays back in the late sixites and it has proved its relevance to topical issues like the connection between content and style in a range of media, cinema, novels and visual arts right into the new millennium.
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Product came undamaged which is so rare for books from online
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Sontag is a genius, this is the book I wish I had when I was in high school so I could have argued slightly more persuasively that the english literature essays we were writing were pure rubbish. Which, of course, is what every high schooler knows. Sontag just, well, proves it. The other essays are really interesting - I like her writing style, and her ideas are wonderfully brilliant. Also looks good on the bookshelf, makes it seem like I'm a real intellectual!