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    Roland Barthes The Death of the Author In his story Sarrasine‚ Balzac‚ speaking of a castrato disguised as a woman‚ writes this sentence: "It was Woman‚ with her sudden fears‚ her irrational whims‚ her instinctive fears‚ her unprovoked bravado‚ her daring and her delicious delicacy of feeling" Who is speaking in this way? Is it the story’s hero‚ concerned to ignore the castrato concealed beneath the woman? Is it the man Balzac‚ endowed by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? Is it

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    Structuralism of Disgrace The dictionary definition of structuralism says: an approach that explores the relationships between fundamental elements of some kind. Coetzee’s stylish writing is rather post-structural in its’ views than structural‚ it is David the protagonist of the novel who is set in his structural ways. Coetzee prefers to write his story with more interest in the gaps‚ silences and absences of his texts. One can see this through his choice of a distant narrator‚ a narrator who

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    Post-Structuralism  Post-structuralism is a continuation and simultaneous rejection of structuralism – not only literary structuralism but even more so the anthropological structuralism of Levi-Strauss (Bertens‚ 2008: 93). * Post-structuralist thought has discovered the essentially unstable nature of signification. The sign is not so much a unit with two sides as a momentary ‘fix’ between two moving layers. Saussure had recognized that signifier and signified are two separate systems‚ but he

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    Jacques Derrida’s “Structure‚ Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences.” In his essay Derrida‚ mainly mentions and uses five main terms; Deconstruction‚ center of the structure‚ structurality of structure‚ bricolage and totalisation. Derrida explains deconstruction as “reading the text against itself‚ reading against the grain”‚ which means deconstruction is used for to find the gaps and silences in a text which are not mentioned by the author of the text. The purpose of deconstruction

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    Apple Case - Applying Roland Barthes communication theory In the following text I will introduce and summarize Roland Barthes’s communicational theory and describe its focus‚ purpose and application. Furthermore I will apply it to the Apple case: „3: Apple slogans‚ advertisements‚ and merchandize”‚ from the given material. I will attempt to give my own explanation of the function and its relevance to the example provided.

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    The importance of Roland Barthes on Cultural Studies‚ his theory of semiotics and applying it to contemporary images of Northern Thailand. The Abstract This report will investigate the importance of Roland Barthes and his relevance to the field of Cultural Studies. It will focus on his theoretical writings about contemporary myths in Mythologies and upon photographic images in Image/Music/Text to understand and interpret contemporary images of Northern Thailand‚ specifically those of Hill

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    In the article “Toys” (1957)‚ Roland Barthes claims that modern toys are conditions children to gender roles they are expected to demonstrate. Barthes supports his claim by explaining that toys are imitations of everyday adult objects and comparing these toys to a wooden set of blocks that promotes creativity and durability. His purpose is to raise awareness about the myths of toys and the things they represent in order to make people reevaluate the types of toys that are best for child development

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    Response to Eliot/Barthes

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    creates the world. Ronald Barthes is a postmodernist. His writings reflect his beliefs that language changes consciousness and then the world. There are obviously many differences between Eliot’s text‚ "Tradition and the Individual Talent‚" and Barthes’ text‚ "The Death of the Author." They are two different authors from different time periods of literature who developed different beliefs and opinions. Even though there seems to be so many differences between Eliot and Barthes‚ these two texts composed

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    Criticism Revision: Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the author.” Barthes argues that- Literature is studied through an understanding of authors not individual texts Text and author should be studied independently from one another Author should not be held solely responsible for the success or failure of a text as they are separate entities The responsibility of a text lies with the reader A text should be defined by the interpretation

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    The Song of Roland

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    The greatest French epic and a landmark of medieval literature‚ The Song of Roland‚ is the earliest existing example of the song of deeds. It created an enormously popular genre in Europe in the middle ages and after. In its celebration of heroic deeds and feudal chivalric ideals‚ The Song of Roland reveals much about the culture of which it is a product‚ is invaluable to historians in its depiction of the evolution of ethics and Christianity‚ and is prized for its literary merit and beauty. Written

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