What is needed according to her is to refine our senses “to see, more to hear more and to feel more”. It is a line that Susan Sontag quotes toward the ... by Against Interpretation (1966 ... the problem is one of interpretation. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. 0000003510 00000 n The question as I would like to reposition it is, “is Sontag categorically against interpretation?” I would answer that Sontag is not against interpretation per se, but rules of interpretation; she is against the practise of using an interpretative grid over and over to “decode” disparate works of art. 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Summary Sections 1–3. (Cf. That is, in the classical period of interpretation, the old is not discarded but only revamped. In conclusion Sontag advocates against looking at an interpreting art didactically or as a delight. She closes with a very debatable punchline saying “in place of a hermeneutics we need and erotics of art”. As the name suggests, the essay is all about Susan’s idea of what interpretation is, and why she’s against it. On the other hand, modern theorists were radical, aggressive and dismissive in their act of interpretation. 0000001340 00000 n 0000010040 00000 n 0000000967 00000 n 0000004312 00000 n Against Interpretation | Sontag Susan | download | Z-Library. 0000001060 00000 n Plato speaks of the value of art being dubious, since the poet-creator is “twice removed from reality”. Against Interpretation closes with the platitude: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” (Sontag, p.14) This is one of Sontag’s statements that promises more than it delivers. 0000007687 00000 n In "Against Interpretation" Susan Sontag takes a stand against the ancient trend of "interpretation." 0000006033 00000 n Susan Sontag addresses this in her essay Against Interpretation, which was published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The title “against” does not mean that Sontag is against interpretation, rather it questions those that are against and tries to defend interpretation. the paintings in the caves at Lascaux, Altamira, Niaux, La Pasiega, etc.) Unlike most literary critics, Sontag believes that literary criticism is growing increasingly destructive towards the very works of art that they, supposedly, so … Required fields are marked *. 21 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 23 /H [ 1060 301 ] /L 105399 /E 57788 /N 5 /T 104861 >> endobj xref 21 31 0000000016 00000 n Susan Sontag addresses this in her essay Against Interpretation, which was published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 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The only difference is in classical theory interpretation, only alter in order to reconcile meaning where insistent but respectful in their opinions and give one more meaning to the existing meaning without rejecting the original. New York: Picador, 2001. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! It is included in her 1966 collection Against Interpretation and Other Essays. 0000004333 00000 n 0000033967 00000 n Sontag immediately addresses this, clarifying her use of the term at the start of section 3: Of course, … Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. Hence, Sontag advocates against interpretations of a work that plays more importance in finding the meaning, message, intention in a work. [Susan Sontag] Against interpretation and other es(BookZZ.org) Amy Hollinrake Tune. Susan Sontag is an avante-guarde writer (who discards conventions) who belongs to the American school of criticism. Here, Aristotle does not reject Plato but only adds more meaning to substantiate and defend the value of both the poet and his heart. Interpretation has dominated art and literary criticism for hundreds of years and has been accelerated by Marxist ideology and Freudian psychology. 0000003531 00000 n A work of art can be as Sontag believes that more attention to form in art should be given. In the last, Sontag argues that in the new approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect. 0000054959 00000 n She discusses and mixes the ideas of other writers and further differentiates two kinds of interpretation – form based interpretation and content based interpretation. The world here she refers to is the text in all it’s gestalt glory and this is what the interpreter recreates. Mars context as she believes that the task of interpretation both makes and mars context as she believes it. 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