2. Basic Principles:
# Literary works→ expression of authors’
mind
# Literary works→ reveal particular truth
✔️ Author→ Dead
✔️ Literary Discourse→ No truth function
Structuralists = Anti-humanists
# any forms of Criticism where:
Meaning
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Human
Subjects
3. Roland Barth-French
In an Essay in 1968:
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Writers→ have power to MIX already existing writings!
→ Reassemble the already existing writings!
Writers→ Can not express themselves in their writings!
Writers→ ONLY Draw on lANGUAGE
Writers→ ONLY Draw on CULTURE
For Barth: Words are Always Already Written!
Already formulated!
Already expressed in Language!
4. None of this is demonstrably True!
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Of course
!
Because in that case, Writers would all:
Cast aside their pens! Search for knitting needles!