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Lisible
is a word from the French for 'legible' used to denote a text that requires no true participation from its audience. It was first coined by the French literary critic Roland Barthes in his book '' S/Z'' and expanded from his essay "The Death of the Author "The Death of the Author" () is a 1967 essay by the French people, French literary critic and Literary theory, theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of relying on the author ...". Barthes contrasts , denoting a closed work, with , a text open to interpretation. In Barthes's opinion, works provide no challenge to the reader's preconceived notions and thus are inferior to scriptible works, exemplified by modernist literature. Barthes contends that lisible works still emphasize the importance of the author, whereas for scriptible texts "the reader is the very space in which are inscribed, without any being lost, all the citations a writing consists of; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Death Of The Author
"The Death of the Author" () is a 1967 essay by the French people, French literary critic and Literary theory, theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of relying on the authorial intent, intentions and biography in literature, biography of an author to definitively explain the "ultimate meaning" of a text. Instead, the essay emphasizes the primacy of each individual reader's interpretation of the work over any "definitive" meaning intended by the author, a process in which subtle or unnoticed characteristics may be drawn out for new insight. The essay's first English language, English-language publication was in the American journal ''Aspen (magazine), Aspen'', no. 5–6 in 1967; the French language, French debut was in the magazine ''Manteia'', no. 5 (1968). The essay later appeared in an anthology of Barthes' essays, ''Image-Music-Text'' (1977), a book that also included his "From Work to Text". Content In hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 25 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields and influenced the development of multiple schools of theory, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism. Barthes is perhaps best known for his 1957 essay collection ''Mythologies'', which contained reflections on popular culture, and the 1967/1968 essay " The Death of the Author", which critiqued traditional approaches in literary criticism. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Collège de France. Biography Early life Roland Barthes was born on 12 November 1915 in the town of Cherbourg in Normandy. His father, naval officer Louis Barthes, was killed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Text
In semiotic analysis (the studies of signs or symbols), an open text is a text that allows multiple or mediated interpretation by the readers. In contrast, a closed text leads the reader to one intended interpretation. The concept of the "open text" comes from Umberto Eco's collection of essays ''The Role of the Reader'', but it is also derivative of Roland Barthes's distinction between 'readerly' ('' lisible'') and 'writerly' (''scriptible'') texts as set out in his 1968 essay "The Death of the Author".Barthes, R., 1977, 'The Death of the Author' in Image-Music-Text, Fontana Content In this essay, Umberto Eco describes a special kind of musical works that can be organized and re-organized by the performers before they are played to the audience. He then applied this idea of "open works" to literary texts and other works of art. Every work of art can be read, according to Eco, in three distinct ways: the moral, the allegorical and the anagogical. Each is not only distinct b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |