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Jennifer Poulos
Nesbitt
Professor of English
Book Title: S/Z
Author: Roland Barthes
Selection Statement:
This meditation on language and meaning—the unspoken codes that mediate interaction with a text—meticulously applied to a short story by Honore de Balzac, inspire me to push the limits of reading as interpretation and to continue, as another giant of literary criticism puts it, to turn the screw of interpretation.
Year: 2022