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.
The Rustle of Language
About the Book
Table of Contents
1 FROM SCIENCE TO LITERATURE
From Science to Literature
To Write: An Intransitive Verb?
Reflections on a Manual
Writing Reading
On Reading
Freedom to Write
2 FROM WORK TO TEXT
The Death of the Author
From Work to Text
Mythology Today
Research: The Young
The Rustle of Language
3 LANGUAGES AND STYLE
Rhetorical Analysis
Style and Its Image go
Pax Culturalis
The War of Languages
The Division of Languages
4 FROM HISTORY TO REALITY
The Discourse of History
The Reality Effect
Writing the Event
5 THE LOVER OF SIGNS
Revelation
A Magnificent Gift
Why I Love Benveniste
Kristeva's Semeiotike
The Return of the Poetician
To Learn and to Teach
6 READINGS
ONE
Cayrol and Erasure
Bloy
Michelet, Today
Michelet's Modernity
Brecht and Discourse: A Contribution to the Study of Discursivity
TWO
F.B.
The Baroque Side
What Becomes of the Signifier
Outcomes of the Text
Reading Brillat-Savarin
Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure...
Preface to Renaud Camus's Tricks
One Always Fails in Speaking of What One Loves
7 ENVIRONS OF THE IMAGE
Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers
To the Seminar
The Indictment Periodically Lodged . . .
Leaving the Movie Theater
The Image
Deliberation