The Rustle of Language
About this 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.From science to literature --To write : an intransitive verb? --Reflections on a manual --Writing reading --On reading --Freedom to write --The death of the author --From work to text --Mythology today --Research : the young --The rustle of language --Rhetorical analysis --Style and its image --Pax Culturalis --The war of languages --The division of languages --The discourse of history --The reality effect --Writing the event --Revelation --A magnificent gift --Why I love Benveniste --Kristeva's Semeiotike --The return of the poetician --To learn and to teach --Cayrol and erasure --Bloy --Michelet, today --Michelet's modernity --Brecht and discourse: a contribution to the study of discursivity --F.B. --The Baroque side --What becomes of the signifier --Outcomes of the text --Reading Brillat-Savarin --An idea of research --Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure ... --Preface to Renaud Camus's Tricks --One always fails in speaking of what one loves --Writers, intellectuals, teachers --To the seminar --The indictment periodically lodged ... --Learning the movie theater --The image --Deliberation