Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Sontag
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Literary, film, and cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Culture, Ideology, Philosophy or philosophers, Authors or writers, Literature, Education or educators, Art or artists, Writing, Books, Creative process, Symbolism, Popular culture, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Anthropology or anthropologists, Avant-garde
Form and Content
Against Interpretation and Other Essays is a collection of twenty-seven essays and reviews which Susan Sontag, once the darling of the New York avant garde, originally published between 1962 and 1965 in such journals as Partisan Review, The New York Review of Books, Moviegoer, and Evergreen Review. Although she has written novels and screenplays since, this, her first collection of essays, established her reputation as a spokesperson for what she defined as a new existential sensibility, and it remains her best-known...
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