Against interpretation, and other essays
(2007)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
809.04/SONTAG,S

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Adult Nonfiction 809.04/SONTAG,S Due: 4/29/2024

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux ; [New York :] : [Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers], [2007?]
DESCRIPTION

xi, 312 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0312280866, 9780312280864, 0312280866 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Picador"

Against interpretation -- On style -- 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 -- Ionesco -- Reflections on The Deputy -- The death of tragedy -- Going to theater, etc. -- Marat/Sade/Artaud -- 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 -- 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 -- Afterword: thirty years later

"In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York in 2004"-- P. [4] of Cover