Against Interpretation

Against Interpretation

First edition
Author	Susan Sontag
Cover artist	Ellen Raskin
Language	English
Subject	Criticism
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	1966
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	304
ISBN	978-0374520403
OCLC	171772

Against Interpretation (often published as Against Interpretation and Other Essays) is a 1966 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "Notes on 'Camp'", "On Style" and the eponymous essay "Against Interpretation." In the latter, Sontag argues that the new approach to criticism and aesthetics neglects the sensuous impact and novelty of art, instead fitting works into predetermined intellectual interpretations and emphasis on the "content" or "meaning" of a work. The book was a finalist for the Arts and Letters category of the National Book Award.^[1]