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"Against Interpretation" and other essays, by Susan Sontag

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Naomi K
May 22, 2012
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It's a little intimidating to try to comment upon this essay collection. Its first two essays--"Against Interpretation" and "On Style"--are so fascinating and so lucid that I am afraid my commentary can only impose a gloss of half-understood meaning on top of Sontag's clear structure. After reading these first two essays, I was convinced that I was read…

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