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Degré zéro de l'écriture

Roland Barthes · 1967

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Defines the nature of writing, as well as the historical, political and personal forces responsbile for the formal changes in writing from the classical period to the present. Ranging far beyond the confines of most literary criticism, this is an incisive analysis of language and speech, tone and style.

First sentence: We know that a language is a corpus of prescriptions and habits common to all the writers of a period.

Book details

Year
1967
Language
English
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Editions
4
Pages
112
ISBN
9780374521394

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