Criticism Revaluation-On "Meta-Dictionary Criticism" Of Susan Sontag

American late literary critics Susan Sontag is one of the most brilliant contemporary critics .Her deepgoing and aunique criticism enrich the theory and practice of human criticism career imagination .When she went into the American critics of 1960s,her "radical will" and wisdom ambition conquered the countless peer and readers. In 1967, she attributed most article of Against Interpretation and Other Essays to meta-dictionary criticism in the preface of Against Interpretation and Other Essays .This fully proved her Passion and ambitions .To some extent, her critical work lead the American public cultural criticism trend .Susan Sontag made a groundbreaking thinking in the movie, drama, photography and visual culture fields even for the disease cultural phenomenon.Faced with such a criticism heritage, most researchers tend to use formalism, aestheticism and postmodernism to generalization Sontag's intelligential criticism thought. The text try to find another way, that is from the perspective of meta-dictionary criticism to sort out and analyze Sontag's criticism. Fist, to explore the background and origin of meta-dictionary criticism according to critical history of United States and Sontag's the inheritance relationship. In 20th, America welcomed the tide of consciousness of criticism. Criticism achieved independence form literary creation. Many criticism genre scrambling to rise and contend. Under this background, in order to achieve her criticism ideal, Sontag draind the thought of Nietzsche to revalue all value, and expressed meta-dictionary criticism, intended to make criticism revaluation. Secondly, to analyze the composition of meta-dictionary criticism from three aspect of reversing content\form, revealing style and creating new sensibility, and research the features of Sontag's meta-dictionary criticism by comparing it with other meta-dictionary criticism words. The emphasis is to tell Sontag's meta-dictionary criticism is a deny to supremacy of traditional criticism. Thirdly, to display the vigor of Sontag's meta-dictionary criticism through criticizing Lukacs's criticism, criticizing Camp and criticizing obscure films. Finally, to explore the why Sontag's meta-dictionary eventually became a utopia on the basis of Sontag's self-examination thirty years later and the ancient confliction between Good and Beauty.