Susan Sontag: the search for an aesthetics of interpretation

Authors

  • Denize Correa Araújo Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.1999.90541

Keywords:

Erotics of art, Rooted/rhizomatic criticism, Deterritorialization

Abstract

This study intends to investigate the nature of Susan Sontag's concept of criticism and the reception her proposal for an aesthetics of interpretation has had. Her call for an "erotics of art" dismisses hermeneutics to privilege a perceptual-emotional response. Her emphasis on form and avoidance of a "rooted"criticism seem to have "deterritorialized"(in Deleuze and Guattari's terminology) some critics. The suggestion of this essay is that Sontag's fragmentation is the very realm of postmodern exegesis, a kind of "stream of consciousness manqué," a post-Joycean or post-Woolfian technique which points out a new form in order to express a not-so-new content.

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Published

1999-03-30

Issue

No. 13 (1999)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 1999 Denize Correa Araújo

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How to Cite

Susan Sontag: the search for an aesthetics of interpretation. (1999). Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture, 13, 185-207. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.1999.90541