id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8691 Against Interpretation - Wikipedia .html text/html 1338 142 62 In a contemporary review of the book, Benjamin DeMott of The New York Times praised Against Interpretation as "a vivid bit of living history here and now, and at the end of the sixties it may well rank among the invaluable cultural chronicles of these years." He concluded, "Miss Sontag has written a ponderable, vivacious, beautifully living and quite astonishingly American book."[6] Brandon Robshaw of The Independent later observed, "This classic collection of essays and criticism from the 1960s flatters the reader's intelligence without being intimidating." He added, "...the essays are unfailingly stimulating. Anker argue that the title essay from Sontag's collection has played an important role in the field of postcritique, a movement within literary criticism and cultural studies that attempts to find new forms of reading and interpretation that go beyond the methods of critique, critical theory, and ideological criticism.[8] ^ Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), p. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8691.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8691.txt