Sontag Form Of Aesthetic Research

Susan sontag is the famous American contemporary critic and writer. With Simon Bofuwa and Hanna, she is known as one of the West three most important contemporary female intellectuals. Her whole works is limited, but it involved in many fields, such as literature, philosophy, fine arts, medicine, and other fields. Contemporary theorists who study on postmodernism, video theory and the theory of disease can't inevitably refer to her works.1960s, the Western postmodernism came to being , and various aesthetic trends emerged. At that time Sontag issued many articles , such as Against Interpretation, On Style, On Camp One culture and a new sensibility . In these articles, she put forward the new critical theory , which cause a great sensation . Subsequently , she collected these articles into thesis a which named Against Interpretation . The New York Review of Books commented it that it was the symbol of critical transition , and it was one of the most influential literary critical books .This thesis attempt to extract four representative articles Against Interpretation, On Style, On Camp One culture and a new sensibility to analyse Susan Sontag's early aesthetic ideas. In those articles we can easily sum up the conclusion : she opposed the traditional simple interpretation which just center on the content of the works, such as social criticism , psychological criticism , Fluidic criticism ; she insisted that we should pay attention to the form of the works , and concentrate on personal style of the works . To sense the work itself, she stress on the private emotion on the works and suspend content of the works . During analyzing sontag's aesthetic theory , the papers focus on the use of dialectical analysis methods to overall acquaint sontag's early theory.