Against Interpretation and Other Essays

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Against Interpretation and Other Essays is a landmark 1966 collection of critical essays by Susan Sontag that helped redefine modern literary and cultural criticism.

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instanceOf essay collection
non-fiction book
author Susan Sontag NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception widely acclaimed
describedAs landmark work of modern criticism
followedBy Styles of Radical Will NERFINISHED
genre cultural criticism
literary criticism
hasEssay Against Interpretation NERFINISHED
Antonioni NERFINISHED
Bergman NERFINISHED
Bresson NERFINISHED
Godard NERFINISHED
Happenings: An Art of Radical Juxtaposition NERFINISHED
Marat/Sade/Artaud NERFINISHED
Notes on Camp NERFINISHED
On Culture and the New Sensibility NERFINISHED
On Style NERFINISHED
One Culture and the New Sensibility NERFINISHED
Piety Without Content NERFINISHED
Psychoanalysis and Art NERFINISHED
Resnais NERFINISHED
Spiritual Style in the Films of Robert Bresson NERFINISHED
The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer NERFINISHED
The Imagination of Disaster NERFINISHED
Theatre and Film NERFINISHED
hasForm hardcover edition
paperback edition
hasTitleEssay Against Interpretation NERFINISHED
influenced art criticism
contemporary literary criticism
cultural studies
language English
mediaType print
notableFor articulating the slogan "In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art"
challenging traditional hermeneutic approaches to art
originalPublicationDecade 1960s
partOfAuthorOeuvre Susan Sontag bibliography
publicationYear 1966
publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux NERFINISHED
subject aesthetics
film
literature
modern art
popular culture
theatre
timePeriodDiscussed mid-20th century

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Susan Sontag wrote Against Interpretation and Other Essays