13 Dec
2014
13 Dec
'14
6:42 a.m.
On 12/13/14, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
... (Aha, found it. http://eng5010.pbworks.com/f/Barthes.pdf. "[Criticism's] role is solely to elaborate a language whose coherence, logic, in short whose systematics can collect or better still can “integrate” (in the mathematical sense of the word) the greatest possible quantity of Proustian language, exactly as a logical equation tests the validity of reasoning without taking sides as to the “truth” of the arguments it mobilizes." It's too bad they never told me about Proustian language in my introductory analysis courses.)
Of course, it may have lost something in translation ... WFL