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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"Barthes"”.
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Credulous Spectatorship from Zeuxis to Barthes
… belief not unlike that which Roland Barthes narrates in Camera Lucida. Just as Barthes can discover something of photography's indexical promise, even after decades of his own scholarly efforts to unveil photography's rhetoric of construction, so might we, even while heeding the …
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Severed texts : aspects of aestheticization in Roland Barthes’ post-structural writings
… to a discussion of the specificity of Roland Barthes' post-structural theorizing by examining some of the themes and techniques of aestheticization running through his writing--reverie, pleasure, "perversion," and the hyper-textualization of the human subject and culture. Following this …
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Manfredo Tafuri's notion of history and its methodological sources : from Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes
The essay is an analysis Tafuri's theory on historiography;. it traces his methodological sources: the theories, and their mode of reception, that have directly influenced his thought. The period examined starts with Theories and History of Architecture, first published in 1968 and ends with "The …
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Cet Autre Qui N'en Est Pas Un. Figuring the East in the Works of Victor Segalen, Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras and Roland Barthes
… Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras and Roland Barthes. The emphasis of the readings is the formation of the East as the Other in these works so as to bring out their relation to the (post-) colonial qua Orientalist subtext. These figures of the Other are captured by focusing on what Pierre …
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Augmenting the agency of marginalised members of society within the semiotic authority of narrative form.
… in situations of symbolic abuse (referring to Barthes’ ideological abuse. Barthes, 1957: 10), and explores the abusive nature of that which resides in what-goes-without-saying (Barthes, 1957: 10). The project investigates the more commonplace manifestations of semiotic authority such as mundane …
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TWILIGHT OF THE TOFFS: FALL OF A CASTE, RISE OF A MYTH
… is a structuralist one, namely that of Roland Barthes in his Mythologies (1956). I show how, notwithstanding the period in which they were written, their aesthetic orientation, or their authors‟ personal stand concerning their society, the chosen novels, spanning six decades, can be analyzed by …
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Cinema's Poetic Function: Creating an Amorous Distance
… leave it vulnerable to myth as defined by Roland Barthes, and instead be a generative force, encouraging its viewer to engage with the full potential of the text. This mode of spectatorship is termed the “amorous distance,” which Barthes describes as his simultaneous fascination with the film and …
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You Matter To Me; Mattering, Materialising and Unmattering.
… folds of life, semiotics, new materialism, Barthes’ death of authority and materiality. Mattering is the state being, living and evolving, through a new materialist lens. Validated by Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘becomings’ and Barthes’ death of the authority, agency becomes an attribute not only …
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Visual Phallacies
Roland Barthes wrote that only after removing all of the author's intentions and traces can a work of art truly be perceived by viewers fairly (Barthes). A viewer's perception of the world is influenced by his or her individual subjective history, which is the product of his or her own experiences. …
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Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature
… thrown into dramatic relief. A myth, says Roland Barthes in his Mythologies, is a kind of "metalanguage," a narrative which refers to and talks about another narrative; it is at least twice removed from any referent which exists in reality. "What is invested in the concept," writes Barthes, "is …
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Motion(less) pictures: the cinema of stasis
… is a <i> sine qua non </i> of cinema, Roland Barthes has insisted that motion is not as central to cinema's ontology as duration, an experiential "unfolding." In this dissertation, I argue--following Barthes--that movement is merely a contingent, not a necessary, condition of cinema. I further …
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Probing the surface : the family archive revisited in installations by Wyn Geleynse, Mindy Yan Miller and Yvonne Singer
… of the individual locked within it. Roland Barthes attributes this phenomenon to the noeme of photography: the "That-Has-Been". Despite the fact that the past cannot be physically captured, it has in some strange sense been accomplished in the image. In an instant, the body has been engraved …
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Collaborations and Resistances Between Writing and Photography in Late Twentieth-Century France
Roland Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Stuart Hall, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Susan Sontag are among the critics who provide useful concepts and theories as a foundation from which to explore encounters between texts and photographs.
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Die rol van die outeur in moderne literêre teorie, met spesifieke verwysing na die ek-poësie van Breyten Breytenbach en D.J. Opperman
… de Saussure, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, semiotiek en dekonstruksie. Hierdie teorieë en teoretici word verbind deur 'n ontkenning van die auteur. Barthes vorm die spil van die ontwikkelingslyn in soverre hy "die dood van die auteur" verkondig en die moontlikheid skep vir 'n …
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The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
… disturbingly resistant to interpretation. Roland Barthes’ writings are integral to a theory of the visceral. His re-evaluation of Saussurean semiology as a method of analyzing and undoing ideologically-imposed meanings informs readings of sequences from Cassavetes and Cronenberg’s films. Following …
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El periodismo literario: una perspectiva iberoamericana bajo el prisma del análisis estructural de los relatos
… en el método de un gran pensador. Roland Barthes nos ofrece su Análisis Estructural de los Relatos (AER), la herramienta adecuada para observar estas producciones periodísticas con mayor seguridad y ayudar a dirigir las líneas visuales de nuestro microscopio social sobre los objetos de …
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Pour une sémiotique du vêtement : étude socio-idéologique du phénomène vestimentaire en contexte occidental
… (par opposition à la "sémiologie" de Barthes) conformément à la position que nous avons adoptée. Mettre sur pied une complète sémiotique du vêtement serait une entreprise surhumaine. En effet, le phénomène a pris une telle ampleur autant psychologiquement que socialement et …
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