The Rustle of LanguageThe 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. |
Contents
From Science to Literature | 3 |
An Intransitive Verb? | 11 |
Reflections on a Manual | 22 |
Writing Reading | 29 |
Freedom to Write | 44 |
From Work to Text | 56 |
Mythology Today | 65 |
The Rustle of Language | 76 |
Kristevas Semeiotike | 168 |
To Learn and to Teach | 176 |
Bloy | 191 |
Michelets Modernity | 208 |
F B | 223 |
The Baroque Side | 233 |
Reading BrillatSavarin | 250 |
An Idea of Research | 271 |
Rhetorical Analysis | 83 |
Style and Its Image | 90 |
Pax Culturalis | 100 |
The War of Languages | 106 |
The Discourse of History | 127 |
The Reality Effect | 141 |
Writing the Event | 149 |
Revelation | 157 |
heure | 277 |
Loves | 296 |
Writers Intellectuals Teachers | 309 |
To the Seminar | 332 |
The Indictment Periodically Lodged | 343 |
The Image | 350 |
Deliberation | 359 |
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