西方文论原典导读

窦可阳

目录

  • 1 Lecture 1 Plato Ion
    • 1.1 Introduction
    • 1.2 Presentation
    • 1.3 Discussion
    • 1.4 Comment
    • 1.5 Quiz
  • 2 Lecture 2 Aristotle Poetics
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Presentation
    • 2.3 Discussion
    • 2.4 Comment
    • 2.5 Quiz
  • 3 Lecture 3 Samuel Johnson Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Presentation
    • 3.3 Discussion
    • 3.4 Comment
    • 3.5 Quiz
  • 4 Lecture 4 Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads (2nd Edition)
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Presentation
    • 4.3 Discussion
    • 4.4 Comment
    • 4.5 Quiz
  • 5 Lecture 5 Taine Preface to History of English Literature
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Presentation
    • 5.3 Discussion
    • 5.4 Comment
    • 5.5 Quiz
  • 6 Lecture 6 Oscar Wilde Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Presentation
    • 6.3 Discussion
    • 6.4 Comment
    • 6.5 Quiz
  • 7 Lecture 7 Freud Development of the Libido and Sexual Organization
    • 7.1 Introduction
    • 7.2 Presentation
    • 7.3 Discussion
    • 7.4 Comment
    • 7.5 Quiz
  • 8 Lecture 8 Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent
    • 8.1 Introduction
    • 8.2 Presentation
    • 8.3 Discussion
    • 8.4 Comment
    • 8.5 Quiz
  • 9 Lecture 9 Empson Seven Types Of Ambiguity
    • 9.1 Introduction
    • 9.2 Presentation
    • 9.3 Discussion
    • 9.4 Comment
    • 9.5 Quiz
  • 10 Lecture 10 Bakhtin Epic and Novel
    • 10.1 Introduction
    • 10.2 Presentation
    • 10.3 Discussion
    • 10.4 Comment
    • 10.5 Quiz
  • 11 Lecture 11 M. H. Abrams The Mirror and the Lamp
    • 11.1 Introduction
    • 11.2 Presentation
    • 11.3 Discussion
    • 11.4 Comment
    • 11.5 Quiz
  • 12 Lecture 12 Sontag Against Interpretation
    • 12.1 Introduction
    • 12.2 Presentation
    • 12.3 Discussion
    • 12.4 Comment
    • 12.5 Quiz
  • 13 Lecture 13 H. Jauss Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory
    • 13.1 Introduction
    • 13.2 Presentation
    • 13.3 Discussion
    • 13.4 Comment
    • 13.5 Quiz
  • 14 Lecture 14 Edward Said Orientalism
    • 14.1 Introduction
    • 14.2 Discussion
    • 14.3 Comment
    • 14.4 Quiz
Comment

·ideas

Sontag wrote frequentlyabout the intersection of high and low art and expanded the dichotomy conceptof form and art in every medium. She elevated camp to the status of recognitionwith her widely read 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'," which accepted artas including common, absurd and burlesque themes.


againstinterpretation


Against Interpretation is acollection of essays by Susan Sontag published in 1966. It includes some ofSontag's best-known works, including "On Style," and the essay"Against Interpretation." In the last, Sontag argues that in the newapproach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by theemphasis on the intellect. Rather than recognizing great creative works aspossible sources of energy, she argues, contemporary critics were all too oftentaking art's transcendental power for granted, and focusing instead on theirown intellectually constructed abstractions like "form" and"content." In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become "theintellect's revenge upon art." The essay famously finishes with the words,"in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art".