The Roland Barthes Reading Group
SETTING A BELL RINGING
AFTER AN UNMASTER CLASS WITH ANNE BOYER2021
SETTING A BELL RINGING
AFTER AN UNMASTER CLASS WITH ANNE BOYER2021
This book is a demonstrative work of unmastery in response to the session of February 24, 1979, ‘Setting a Bell Ringing’, in The Preparation of the Novel. It is equally a response to an unmaster class with Anne Boyer, a séance convened by the Roland Barthes Reading Group as part of the symposium Poetics in Commons, convened by Sarah Bernstein and Daniel Eltringham, at the University of Sheffield in May 2019. The symposium explored the potential of literature and art to produce and reinvent shared spaces, ways of living, and forms of social and ecological cooperation.
‘Ah, this book! Here, at last, I feel like I have found my people: an unlikely group of reader-writers reading and writing for very different reasons, their heads in different places, their bodies responding to quite different ideas, questions, details. All of them reading—or sometimes not reading, but sitting for a time together with, then writing with or out or away from—Roland Barthes’s notes for a session of his last lecture course. Their short pieces of responsive writing deal variously, precisely, and movingly with aging, bafflement, boredom, grieving, listening, new life, and responsibility—with the brief, sharp, and the longer, sometimes duller forms of experience. To my ear, each one strikes newly at the lecture course; together, they make the whole thing resound.’ —> Kate Briggs
The Roland Barthes Reading Group for this book is Emma Bolland, Julia Calver, Daniela Cascella, Louise Finney, Susannah Gent, Sharon Kivland, Debbie Michaels, Hestia Peppé, Rachel Smith, with our guest, Jennifer Clarke.
‘Ah, this book! Here, at last, I feel like I have found my people: an unlikely group of reader-writers reading and writing for very different reasons, their heads in different places, their bodies responding to quite different ideas, questions, details. All of them reading—or sometimes not reading, but sitting for a time together with, then writing with or out or away from—Roland Barthes’s notes for a session of his last lecture course. Their short pieces of responsive writing deal variously, precisely, and movingly with aging, bafflement, boredom, grieving, listening, new life, and responsibility—with the brief, sharp, and the longer, sometimes duller forms of experience. To my ear, each one strikes newly at the lecture course; together, they make the whole thing resound.’ —> Kate Briggs
The Roland Barthes Reading Group for this book is Emma Bolland, Julia Calver, Daniela Cascella, Louise Finney, Susannah Gent, Sharon Kivland, Debbie Michaels, Hestia Peppé, Rachel Smith, with our guest, Jennifer Clarke.
76 pages
105 mm x 170 mm
60 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN
978-1-910055-81-6
£9.00
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105 mm x 170 mm
60 mm French flaps (cover)
Format: Paperback
ISBN
978-1-910055-81-6
£9.00
Next Book ->