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00266--ROLAND BARTHES and His Works

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ROLAND BARTHES  (1915–1980) Writing Degree Zero  Michelet  Mythologies  Critical Essays  Elements of Semiology  Criticism an...

00170--'THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR' BY ROLAND BARTHES

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In his story Sarrasine Balzac, describing a castrato disguised as a woman, writes the following sentence: 'This was woman he...

00169--Why does Roland Barthes hold that Author is a construct?

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Barthes begins his essay, “Death of the Author” quoting a sentence from the French writer Balzac “ This was woman herself, with ...

00139--S/Z by Barthes. 5 codes identified by Barthes in S/Z are:

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Roland Barthes             Barthes book S/Z was published in  1970.  The  book is above Balazac's thirty page story 'Sarrasine&...

00116--"The reign of the author has also been that of the critic" Explain.

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            The task of the learned, scholastic critic was to reveal the meaning of the text and to help the poor readers in grasping ...

00114--What is Barthes's opinion about the traditional practice of seeking the author's help in deciphering the text? OR How does the removal of the Author widen the scope of a work?

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            Traditional criticism used to take the help of the author in deciphering the text.  Barthes questions the very concept of deci...

00113--How does Barthes revolutionise the concept of the text? OR How does Barthes question the existence of an intact meaning in a text?

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            Barthes' name is commonly remembered with his conclusion:  " the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the d...

00111--How does Barthes establish that Author is a construct?

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            In the 1920s itself, structuralism proved three things about the workings of language and hence literature.  The primary a...