Roland Barthes

about photography skills, such as the masterpiece, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. The author, Roland Barthes, a French literary theorist, semiotics and structuralist, apparently referred the photography to the metaphysical height to think in the book. The essay is going to demonstrate my understanding about Barthes book, mainly focusing on his two elements, “studium” and “punctum”; moreover, relating to my photographic experience as well. Overall, Barthes uses the first person narrative to express his thinking, reflections, attitude and observations on the nature of photography. The book is divided…

A strong theme throughout Swift’s work is her need to draw from personal experience in order to author her music – a theme, which many would argue makes her relatable, authentic, and the key to much of her success. For this discussion it is beneficial to look at Swift’s role as author through the eyes of theorist Roland Barthes: “(b)ook and author stand automatically on a single line divided into a before and an after. The Author is thought to nourish the book, which is to say that he exists…

characters in movies and their actions into clearly defined roles and functions. Films such as Star Wars fit this model precisely, whereas some films like Pulp Fiction do not follow this theory (guest9e3b3b, 2009). These are the character roles that Propp defined: • The Hero (Seeks Something) • The Villain (Opposes the Hero) • The Donor (Helps the Hero by Providing Items or a Magical Object) • The Dispatcher (Sends the Hero on His Way) • The False Hero (Falsely Assumes the Role of the Hero) •…

They have had to stayed strong and resilient not to succumb to what she has. The theorist Roland Barthes is a French literary theorist. Barthes theory is about that once you remove the author it changes the shape of the text. Barthes claims that the Author is somewhat a “God” that an Author is an authoritative figure. However once the text is read and interpreted by another the Author essentially dies. The reader is born from the text and the death of the author that once control the meaning…

Burgin goes as far as saying photographs are accepted in the same way ‘environment’ is accepted. (Burgin 1982, 142) Burgin notes that until the 1960’s there was no real in depth study of how to read photographs within society. However, soon came the emergence of semiotics, which Burgin perceives brought photography to the forefront and shifted photography in terms of theory. Burgin references Roland Barthes’s Elements of Semiology and further explains that the study of natural language…

without having an original. Sherman herself has disagreed with the notion that her stills were based on films. Krauss brings to her discussion the French Post-Structuralist, Roland Barthes, and uses his arguments relating to semiotics into the stills by claiming that the mis-recognition takes place due to myth. Using the idea of myth, Krauss states that Sherman is also responsible for myth creation because using myth to counteract myth.’ She creates the ‘Rashomon-factor,’ which is a…

In his short book, Roland Barthes enabled a conversation about how and why we engage with a text. It establishes and outlines two categories of text and yet the two classifications of pleasure and bliss are still unable to fully remove themselves from the other. One cannot find bliss in the text without first finding pleasure. It seems to be more of a two-step process to achieving bliss through a text rather than it instantly becoming a blissful text. It is not a dismissal of the classifications…

Saussure Within The Great Gatsby Structuralism can be described as a critical movement of literature that studies how elements of a text can be understood more efficiently by examining its relationship to the overall composition of a text. Ferdinand de Saussure, the “father of modern linguistics” (845) is a prominent critic in the Structuralism movement. The understanding of Saussure’s theory in Structuralism will be examined using mathematical examples and applied to interpret The Great…

connect and have fun no matter what the game is. Whereas in the essay “Toys”, Roland Barthes, a literary theorist from france, state 's that toys are simply for users and owners and that people are never creators. Although the two texts differ, there are moments in Moore’s writing that supports Barthes views on users, creators and owners and how we are constantly choosing between those views. There are many types of toys and with many types of toys there are many ways to play with a toy. Three…

practice (not your own). Describe the object and explain your choice. Things you should consider include: (i) A formal description of the object (what is it made from; how was it made; what, if anything, does it represent? (ii) An account of why you’ve picked the object. What questions does this object ask of us? What problems does the object solve? How might we think or live differently as a result? “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets…