Against Interpretation

Dell Publishing Company, New York, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Eighth impression. Size: Small Octavo. 304 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Susan Sontag was an incandescent presence in American culture, whether as essayist, fiction writer, film-maker, or political activist. As a critic, she became the most provocative and influential voice of her time. More than a commentator on her era, she helped shape it. With the publication of her first collection of critical essays, Against Interpretation (1966), Sontag took her place at the forefront of a period of cultural and political transformation. 'What is important now,' she wrote, 'is to recover our senses . . . . In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.' Against Interpretation's treatment of an astonishing range of subjects - camp sensibility, the films of Robert Bresson and Alain Resnais, the aesthetics of science-fiction and 'happenings,' the work of such modern thinkers as Simone Weil and Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris and Claude Levi-Strauss - reveals Sontag as a catalyzing figure who opened provocative perspectives on every subject she addressed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; United States; 1960s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10391. .