ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Intertextuality, Roland Barthes, Jouissance
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Roland barthes from work to text, acts of criticism and text . Going across different fields, ex. lit and feminism, film and something else. Not only studying literature, but in other things too. Barthes distinguishes work and text: talks about how things are interdisciplinary these days, freudian studies, marxism, leading into different shifts. Sign, the relationship between signifier and signified: arbitrary, not based on fixed reason, subjective. The work is a defined object: defined, closed off, vs. A text is in the process of becoming, in flux, fluid. Subversive, sometimes you can"t categorize certain texts and authors. Paradoxical, beyond opinions, working with two contradicting ideas at the same time. Ludic, playful, a constant play, you see all these signifiers that are playing. Metonymic: associated with each other on a vertical axis. Text: word"s origins from weaving, interweaving, the texts around you, (textiles) Daimon, what connects you to a different realm.
