 We know now that a text consists not of a line of words, releasing a single “theological” meaning (the “message” of the Author-God), but of a multi-dimensional space in which are married and contested several writings, none of which is original:...  The Rustle of Language - Page 52by Roland Barthes - 1989 - 373 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | John Caughie - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 316 pages
...itself, language which ceaselessly calls into question all origins. We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological' meaning (the ‘message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The... | |
 | Geoffrey Galt Harpham - Art - 1992 - 343 pages
...("From Work to Text" 160). "We now know," he says in 'The Death of the Author," "that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash" (146).... | |
 | Sanford Levinson, Steven Mailloux - Law - 1988 - 502 pages
...demystification leads to another. He made the connection himself: We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single "theological" meaning (the "message" of the Author-God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of... | |
 | Stephen Prickett - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 305 pages
...contemporary context there lurks, however, a yet more iconoclastic school of criticism: ... a text is not a line of words releasing a single "theological" meaning (the "message" of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The... | |
 | Heide Ziegler - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 301 pages
...authorities who will tell them what to think. To that extent Barthes is right to say that “a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological' meaning (the ‘message' of the AuthorGod) but a multidimensional space,” 2 but his further argument that we are all mere unoniginal citers of past... | |
 | Alicia G. Andreu - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 126 pages
...es la escritura. En otro libro Barthes confirma esta misma postura cuando escribe que "a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash."... | |
 | Theo d' Haen, Johannes Willem Bertens, Theo d'. Haen - Fiction - 1990 - 279 pages
...famous theory that Barthes expounded in “The Death of the Author”: We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological” meaning (the message of the AuthorGod) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The... | |
 | François Jost, Melvin J. Friedman - Philosophy - 1990 - 290 pages
...of the author," long ago formulated by Roland Barthes. "We know," he tells us, "that the text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the message of an Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original,... | |
 | Clara Claiborne Park - Literary Collections - 1991 - 231 pages
...than the transmogrification of authors into functions or problems: "We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space, in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash."... | |
 | Cawelti, John G., Gerould, Daniel, Brooks, Peter, Richard Abel, Elsaesser, Thomas, Charles Affron, Robert C. Allen, Ien Ang, John Belton, Jean-Loup Bourget, Charlotte Brunsdon, Noel Carroll, Alan Casty, Pam Cook, Naomi Greene, Chuck Kleinhans, Ana M. Lopez, Ruth McCormick, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Christopher Orr, Ellen Seiter, Christian Viviani, Linda Williams - Performing Arts - 1991 - 619 pages
...phenomenon. Indeed, Roland Barthes contends in "Death of the Author" that "[w]e know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The... | |
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