E·ratio Postmodern Poetry

The idea of the “intransitive” comes by way of the French literary critic and semiotician Roland Barthes who (in his essay, “Ecrivains et écrivants”) made the distinction between “transitive” writing and “intransitive” writing, which is to say writing that is a means to an extra-linguistic end as distinct from writing that calls the attention of the reader to the activity of writing itself. Flaubert, Zola and Hemingway are instances of the forme...