Against Interpretation

by Sontag, Susan

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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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… Read more about this item
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing, a notable association copy, inscribed in blue pen on the half-title page to novelist Hortense Calisher prior to publication: "For Hortense-- Regards-- Susan 12/23/65." Calisher (b. 1911) wrote 23 collections and novels, and was three times a finalist for the National Book Award. She also… Read more about this item
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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… Read more about this item
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New York: Dell, 1969. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. Vintage paperback, Dell Laurel 0083; the late Susan Sontag's first book after her novel, "The Benefactor," is this collection of essays from the 1960s on literature, film, philosophy and society in which she advanced the concept that art is understood first… Read more about this item
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Dell Publishing Company, New York, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Eighth impression. Size: Small Octavo. 304 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges very slightly spotted… Read more about this item
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