Poetry & Barthes: Anglophone Responses 1970-2000

by Callie Gardner

Book Overview

What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of language's ability to communicate ideas and emotions? Moreover, what are the political limitations of these questions? The work of the French cultural critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915-80) poses these questions, and has become influential in doing so, but the precise nature of that influence is often taken for granted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800856644
• ISBN13: 9781800856646
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 232 Pages