"The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Academics from FranceLiterary criticsPhilosophers from FranceEducators from FranceLinguists from France
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Proposition 4
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician.
20 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Roland Barthes →
Related Quotes
"Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text…"
"Encratic language (the language produced and spread under the protection of power) is statutorily a language of repet…"
"La forme bâtarde de la culture de masse est la répétition honteuse: on répète les contenus, les schèmes idéologiques,…"
"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at th…"
"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if h…"
"The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named."
"Bourgeois norms are experienced as the evident laws of a natural order—the further the bourgeois class propagat…"
"Myth is depoliticized speech."
"The bourgeoisie hides the fact that it is the bourgeoisie and thereby produces myth; revolution announces itself open…"
"Statistically, myth is on the right. There, it is essential, well-fed, sleek, expensive, garrulous, it invents itself…"