Poetry & Barthes
Poetry & Barthes What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What are the limits of language's ability to communicate ideas and emotions? What authority has the writer over a text?…
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Poetry & Barthes
What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What are the limits of language's ability to communicate ideas and emotions? What authority has the writer over a text?
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. Moreover, what are the political limitations of these questions? This is nowhere more true than in poetry, where Barthes' concerns about pleasure and origin are assumed to be relevant, but this has seldom been closely examined.This innovative study traces the engagement with Barthes by poets writing in English, beginning in the early 1970s with one of Barthes' earliest Anglophone poet readers, Scottish poet-theorist Veronica Forrest-Thomson (194775).
It goes on to examine the American poets who