Against Interpretation: And Other Essays - Susan Sontag.

And then you untie the knots along the way, only to create more knots. So in many ways this book on Sontag is a defense of the essay. It’s a book-length essay, and what I value most in Sontag is her work as an essayist, especially her first three collections of essays: Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, and Under the Sign of Saturn.

Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne's College, Oxford University.

Interpretation must itself be evaluated, within a historical view of human consciousness. In some cultural contexts, interpretation is a liberating act. It is a means of revising, of transvaluing, of escaping the dead past. In other cultural contexts, it is reactionary, impertinent, cowardly, stifling. 4.

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About this Item: Penguin UK Jun 2009, 2009. Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics.

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Get this from a library! Against interpretation, and other essays. (Susan Sontag) -- From the publisher. First published in 1966, this celebrated book -- Sontag's first collection of essays -- quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on.

Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag (1966). When I watched the 2014 documentary Regarding Susan Sontag, the ending struck me as a disturbing parable of the western.

This, perhaps unexpectedly, is Susan Sontag at the beginning of Illness as Metaphor. That the author of “Against Interpretation” should begin her ruthless dissection of the way metaphors distort our understanding of disease with a conceit that extends to half a page is less a contradiction of what follows than a tacit acknowledgement of its.

Against Interpretation, and Other Essays is a collection of essays written by Susan Sontag between 1961 and 1965, including book, play, and film reviews, as well as more general discussions of.

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The last essay on our list is called Against Interpretation and was written by the acclaimed author Susan Sontag, best known for her contribution to understanding photography. Written in 1966, it is part of a collection of essays which also includes On Style.