Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Informationen zum Autor Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor , Death Kit , The Volcano Lover , and In America , which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera ; several plays, including Alice in Bed ; and nine works of essays, among them On Photography , which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004. Klappentext Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 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 groundbreaking essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Lukacs 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 ...

Autorentext
Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among them On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004.

Klappentext
Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 groundbreaking essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-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.

Inhalt
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 Lukacs
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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