Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

出版者:Penguin Books

作者:Susan Sontag

页数:336

出版时间:2009-6-1

价格:USD 26.50

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780141190068

丛书系列:Penguin Modern Classic

图书标签:SusanSontag苏珊・桑塔格艺术文学苏珊·桑塔格essays英文英文原版

"Against Interpretation" was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them "On Style", "Notes on 'Camp", and the titular essay "Against Interpretation", where Sontag argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a new critical approach to aesthetics.

读后感

大概十多年来，苏珊·桑塔格的名字在我的耳畔总会时不时地被提到一下，在看过她几行简单简历之后，我还是放弃了阅读她的书，因为，我觉得自己在没有获得足够能理解她思想的文化基石之前，还是不要妄想去阅读她，免得误解她，一如我曾经误解的伍尔芙和波伏娃。 翻过岁月的...  

素材是每个人面前可以见到的，意蕴只有在实践中须和它打交道的人才能找到，而形式对于多数人却是一个秘密。——歌德 苏珊•桑塔格认为“坎普”（“Camp”）是唯美主义的某种形式，是将世界看作审美现象的一种方式。但她（这里的“她”指坎普，我暂将其看作...  

刚读了第一篇。 读后十五分钟之内无法抑制心中的某种东西。。。她可能说出了我几年来想说又说不出的东西。 很少读到那么好那么深入我心的文章了。 她的评论有某种直抵要害的东西，（从某种特定的角度看来）年轻，激进，深刻而超前。 又， 去了桑塔格的官方网站，碰巧发现她去...  

In Susan Sontag’s text, she has a demonstration between “two cultures”, which are the literary-artistic and the scientific. Since the Industrial Revolution, the diagnosis of them is, for the literary-artistic culture is understood as a general culture, w...  

In Susan Sontag’s text, she has a demonstration between “two cultures”, which are the literary-artistic and the scientific. Since the Industrial Revolution, the diagnosis of them is, for the literary-artistic culture is understood as a general culture, w...  

用户评价

'This is clear in the case of the great serious idol of Camp taste, Greta Garbo. Garbo's incompetence (at the least, lack of depth) as an actress enhances her beauty. She's always herself.'

喜欢的要死 基本每一篇都读的我浑身打颤 sontag的文笔真的不是一般的好 控制文字的功力和敏锐睿智的主见真是最完美的结合 against interpretation (§9) is the best piece of prose i've ever read

'This is clear in the case of the great serious idol of Camp taste, Greta Garbo. Garbo's incompetence (at the least, lack of depth) as an actress enhances her beauty. She's always herself.'

Notes on "Camp": "To talk about Camp is therefore to betray it"，于是呢我接着去看Monty Phyton了www

非常同意criticism應該試著描繪encounter with the sensuous surface of a work of art本身，但是各種media之間必須要有visual成分更多的才有這個privilege against interpretation嗎？novel也是可以借助於敘述和書本身的material form來resist the itch to interpretation，或者更確切是allegory （想和Tolkien的那篇講allegory的一起讀)