Against Interpretation
by Sontag, Susan (signed)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: FSG, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by Sontag on the the half-title page and dated "Feb 6, 1966, Hartford." Uncommon signed. Her classic collection of essays, a finalist for the National Book Award. A review in The New York Times upon the book's release called it "a ponderable, vivacious, beautifully living and quite astonishingly American book," and Sontag remains one of our most revered contemporary essayists.
White cloth, black endpapers. A very good copy with light browning to board edges and toning to pages, as well as the unobtrusive remains of a former bookplate on the half-title page; in a very good or better jacket with light rubbing and a few short tears to the upper edge of the rear panel.
White cloth, black endpapers. A very good copy with light browning to board edges and toning to pages, as well as the unobtrusive remains of a former bookplate on the half-title page; in a very good or better jacket with light rubbing and a few short tears to the upper edge of the rear panel.
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
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1096
- Title
- Against Interpretation
- Author
- Sontag, Susan (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- FSG
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1966
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Rural Hours
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La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
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