Against interpretation : and other essays
The author relates her theories of literary criticism to the total aesthetic experience.
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xi, 312 pages ; 21 cm - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2001.
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General Note: | Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ©1966. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- 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. |