About the Book
The Rustle of Language is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching—the pleasure of the text—in an authoritative translation by Richard Howard.
The Rustle of Language
Price: $30.95
Publication Date: Jan 1989
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: Omit British Common; Include Canada
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780520066298
Trim Size: 6 x 9
About the Author
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Rumania and Egypt, he joined the Centre de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the Collège de France until his death in 1980.
Table of Contents
1 FROM SCIENCE TO LITERATURE
From Science to Literature
To Write: An Intransitive Verb?
Reflections on a Manual
Writing Reading
On Reading
Freedom to Write
2 FROM WORK TO TEXT
The Death of the Author
From Work to Text
Mythology Today
Research: The Young
The Rustle of Language
3 LANGUAGES AND STYLE
Rhetorical Analysis
Style and Its Image go
Pax Culturalis
The War of Languages
The Division of Languages
4 FROM HISTORY TO REALITY
The Discourse of History
The Reality Effect
Writing the Event
5 THE LOVER OF SIGNS
Revelation
A Magnificent Gift
Why I Love Benveniste
Kristeva's Semeiotike
The Return of the Poetician
To Learn and to Teach
6 READINGS
ONE
Cayrol and Erasure
Bloy
Michelet, Today
Michelet's Modernity
Brecht and Discourse: A Contribution to the Study of Discursivity
TWO
F.B.
The Baroque Side
What Becomes of the Signifier
Outcomes of the Text
Reading Brillat-Savarin
Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure...
Preface to Renaud Camus's Tricks
One Always Fails in Speaking of What One Loves
7 ENVIRONS OF THE IMAGE
Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers
To the Seminar
The Indictment Periodically Lodged . . .
Leaving the Movie Theater
The Image
Deliberation
From Science to Literature
To Write: An Intransitive Verb?
Reflections on a Manual
Writing Reading
On Reading
Freedom to Write
2 FROM WORK TO TEXT
The Death of the Author
From Work to Text
Mythology Today
Research: The Young
The Rustle of Language
3 LANGUAGES AND STYLE
Rhetorical Analysis
Style and Its Image go
Pax Culturalis
The War of Languages
The Division of Languages
4 FROM HISTORY TO REALITY
The Discourse of History
The Reality Effect
Writing the Event
5 THE LOVER OF SIGNS
Revelation
A Magnificent Gift
Why I Love Benveniste
Kristeva's Semeiotike
The Return of the Poetician
To Learn and to Teach
6 READINGS
ONE
Cayrol and Erasure
Bloy
Michelet, Today
Michelet's Modernity
Brecht and Discourse: A Contribution to the Study of Discursivity
TWO
F.B.
The Baroque Side
What Becomes of the Signifier
Outcomes of the Text
Reading Brillat-Savarin
Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure...
Preface to Renaud Camus's Tricks
One Always Fails in Speaking of What One Loves
7 ENVIRONS OF THE IMAGE
Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers
To the Seminar
The Indictment Periodically Lodged . . .
Leaving the Movie Theater
The Image
Deliberation