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Against interpretation : and other essays /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dell Pub. Co., 1966.
Series:A Delta book ; 0038
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Against interpretation
  • On style
  • 2. The artist as exemplary sufferer
  • Simone Weil
  • Camus' Notebooks
  • Michel Leiris' Manhood
  • The anthropologist as hero
  • The literary criticism of Georg Lukács
  • Sartre's Saint Genet
  • Nathalie Sarraute and the novel
  • 3. Ionesco
  • The death of tragedy
  • Going to theater, etc.
  • Marat/Sade/Artaud
  • 4. 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
  • 5. 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.