Roland Barthes
The Figures of Writing
Andrew Brown
Price: £79.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815171-5
Publication date: 24 September 1992
320 pages, 216x138 mm
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| - '`Andrew Brown has made an extensive study of Barthes' written discourse ... Andrew Brown's book is useful, precisely because it underlines the often romantic, utopian nature of Barthes' writing. Furthermore, its methodology, despite the post-structuralist logic, indicates a way of approaching Barthes' attachment to l'histoire profonde, and to its plasticite, which he admired in Brecht's
work.'
Modern and Contemporary France 1993' -
- '`Undoubtedly, Dr Brown's outstanding book on Barthes' later writings ... is sympathetic and positive ... This new study of Barthes ... has ... managed to elucidate Barthes' writings with clarity, wit and subtlety ... I recommend this book as a great pleasure to read.'' -
- '`Andrew Brown's monograph ... highlights the politicized as well as paradoxically personal - that is, autobiographically committed - idiom of literary criticism now in fashion in the United States.'
Times Literary Supplement' -
- ''Andrew Brown has made an extensive study of Barthes' written discourse ... Andrew Brown's book is useful, precisely because it underlines the often romantic, utopian nature of Barthes' writing. Furthermore, its methodology, despite the post-structuralist logic, indicates a way of approaching Barthes' attachment to l'histoire profonde, and to its plasticité, which he admired in Brecht's work.'
Andy Stafford, University of Nottingham, Modern & Contemporary France, 1993' -
- ''This is a very well=written study of a wide range of Barthes's work. It is a revised Ph.D. thesis, which is clearly based on extensive research, on careful reading of some of Barthes's lesser-known texts. Brown's book is important as a serious engagement with under-explored areas of Barthes's writing,'
Diana Knight, University of Nottingham, MLR. Vol 89. Part 4' -
- 'The subject of this careful study is Roland Barthes as a writer. The figures of Writing counts amoung a growing number of books that take seriously Barthes labour as a critic, as a creative observer of culture, and as an artist...the treatment of the graphic character of writing, and the closely argued sections on framing, scribbling, silence, and trauma - stand as strong and enduring
contributions. These parts of the book renew not only our appreciation of Barthes but also and especially our allegiance to art and literature.' - Modern Philology
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| Description | | This book focuses on some of the ways Barthes discusses the nature of his own writing. The first two chapters examine the key but ambiguous term of `dérive' (`drift'), a word which raises questions about how exactly Barthes's writing develops across three decades, about the `scientific' legitimacy of his concepts, and about his own frequently fraught relation to the scientific discourses
around him, especially psychoanalysis. Two typical discursive manoeuvres that structure his writing, `naming' and `framing', are then shown to generate particular aesthetic effects which cause complications for some of his theoretical stances. Barthes's fascination for the idea that all writing is a kind of scribble, closer to the visual arts than to speech, is investigated in depth, and his
latent animus against speech as such is made manifest. The final chapter suggests that, for Barthes, `the real' can leave its mark on writing only as a disturbing, indeed traumatic trace. |
Readership: Scholars, postgraduates, advanced undergraduates studying literary theory (especially those concerned to investigate the tensions between writing and other kinds of artistic practice), contemporary French writing and theory, and more broadly, cultural studies.
| Authors, editors,
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Andrew Brown, Fellow in French, Magdalene College, Cambridge
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