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Against Interpretation
by SONTAG, Susan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 304 pp. Very good in original cloth boards with toning to textblock, as usual with foxing to head of boards and some rubbing to corners. Very good pictorial dust jacket with rubbing to spine and fore-edges. Inscribed prior to book release in 1965, seemingly at an event, as there is another signed copy for sale with the same date (12/23/1965), Sontag's second book and first book of essays.
Synopsis
Against Interpretation and Other Essays is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag which was published in 1966. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp'", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation". In the last, Sontag argued that in the new critical approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bagatelle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6449
- Title
- Against Interpretation
- Author
- SONTAG, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Farrar , Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
Terms of Sale
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Bagatelle Books, IOBA
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Bagatelle Books, IOBA
We are a brick-and-mortar independent bookstore in West Asheville, North Carolina.
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