In his preface to this work, poet Richard Howard attacks critics for saying
In his preface to this work, poet Richard Howard attacks critics for saying that this work makes sense only to that class of people with no capacity for "instinctive enjoyment." The author defines a central concept as a "perspective of quotations" and uses the phenomenon of "terracing" to explain how voices absorb one another. In other portions, he introduces ideas like the "stereographic space" and the "axis of castration," which has a passive and active pole. The proairetic, semic, hermeneutic, symbolic, and cultural are the names chosen to denote the codes operative in the lexia or "units of reading" – of which there are 561 in the text discussed in this work, a short story by Honore de Balzac entitled "Sarrasine." FTP, name this structuralist study written in 1970 by Roland Barthes and named after two letters.
In his preface to this work, poet Richard Howard attacks critics for saying that this work makes sense only to that class of people with no capacity for "instinctive enjoyment.
{S/Z}: An Essay (or “S slash Z”)