num_pages: 119
description: Structured as a two-part essay. Part one opens with Barthes’s point by point dissection of Sorbonne philologist Raymond Picard’s “old criticism.” Part two is devoted primarily to the author’s own theory of criticism.Structured as a two-part essay, the book opens with Barthes’s point-by-point dissection of Picard’s “old criticism.” Barthes consturcts his own argument and shows, ultimately, that one can cross the abyss that separates criticism and reading, and, by implication, that which separates both from the work of the writer.
language: English
title: Criticism and Truth
titlecomplete: Criticism and Truth
genres: Philosophy, Essays, Literature, Criticism, Literary Criticism, Semiotics, France, Theory, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 456
publisher: University of Minnesota Press