The Rustle of Language. by Roland Barthes (PDF)

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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.

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Editorial Reviews: From Publishers Weekly Barthes (19151980), a disciple of structuralist Claude Levi-Strauss and author of Empire of Signs, The Responsibility of Forms, etc., was one of the leading philosophical linguists of our time. This collection of essays, which deals with the scientific study of signs and symbols, of literary language in general and of the points where scientific and literary language diverge, also offers speculations on science, history, art and authors such as Balzac, Flaubert and Gide, and insists throughout on the writer’s subjectivity (“literature follows the hand”). The book should prove an excitement for students of language. The general reader, however, is likely to have difficulty with such concepts as “language-objects,” “speech-act” and “limit-noise,” or understanding how “The rustle of language forms . . . the utopia of music’s meaning,” and so may have trouble keeping up with the subtle and fiery rush of Barthes’s thoughts. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 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. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review “In “The Rustle of Language, the typically Barthesian texture of the writing makes itself felt. That texture–delightful to many of us–is composed of the mutual jostling of many (often mutually incompatible) registers of discourse. Linguistics, literature, philosophy, . . . history, semantics, Marxism–these are only the commonest of the many categories that organize Barthes’ thinking. . . . In all of these essays, the briskness and liveliness of Barthes’s style makes the work interesting.”–Helen Vendler, “New York Review of Books –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the Back Cover In the ‘The Rustle of Language’ almost all the essays in this collection deal with language and with literary writing, or, better still, with the pleasure owed to the text. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Read more

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