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The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text

By Reda Bensmaia

Book information

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
1987
ISBN
0816613788, 0816613796
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12265236 bytes)
Series
Theory and History of Literature
Volume
54
Pages
\153
Time added
2023-07-28 02:18:58

Description

Aware that traditional criticism has persisted in seeing the text or genre as a closed form, he argues, for Barthes, that 'meaning must not set too quickly, that the text must not harden into one genre.' In fact, the essay may be the moment of writing before the appearance of genre or, as Barthes himself has suggested, the matrix of all generic possibilities.

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