Against Interpretation
Subtitle: And Other Essays
Publisher: Picador
Published: August 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780312280864
Subjects: Essays; Popular Culture - General; Semiotics & Theory; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 20th century; History and criticism; Literature; Literature, Modern
First sentence: THE earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical; art was an instrument of ritual.