Roland Barthes

DAVID HOCKNEY PARAGRAPH. ‘Distrusts claims as to its greater reality’ Photography is problematic to DH, he says Photography produces a poor representation of a moment. ‘Suggests the only thing photography was much good at conveying was another flat surface’- . Within a photograph you only see a split second. A camera doesent work in the same way your eyes do. It is not realistic, it can not be what we see. We do not capture/see a moment in one blink. Our eyes are constantly darting around the…

Literary theory consists of various principles, beliefs and underlying ideas that are used to understand and analyze different pieces of texts in literature. An interesting way to view literary theory is by considering theories as tools. Critics take these tool and apply it to a text in an attempt to look at it from a different perspective. It grants them the ability to examine a particular aspect of a text, which they regard of significant importance. When these theories are passed onto readers…

“Text means tissue” Roland Barthes once stated, emphasizing that a text should not be viewed as a finished product “behind which lies, more or less hidden, meaning (truth)” but rather as a fluid entity which “is worked out in a perpetual interweaving” (64). Thus, a text does not hide one single truth, waiting to be discovered, but – in perpetual interaction with its readers – creates or at least permits a multiplicity of meanings. Symptomatic of the complexity of meanings woven into a single…

Here is a suggestion of the parallel possibilities for Pai. He says that he crosses the wall for the first time. The wall, of course, is the illusion that stands as barrier to the perception of reality, perhaps necessary so long as man belongs to the world, has family and all. The obstacle to the perception of reality is the ego. Once the illusion (ego) vanishes, you become Govindan Nair who could jump over the wall back and forth endlessly absorbing the ecstasy and letting it fall at any place.…

own destiny or are they controlled by some predetermined path that was meant for them? This idea of being controlled by an inevitable result is called fate. Many pieces of literature raise questions on the idea of fate and if it exists. Critic Roland Barthes has said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” In The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger, six-crew members on board the Andrea Gail from Gloucester, Massachusetts in hope of swordfish along Nova Scotia find themselves in many…

melodrama as a primary underlying theme that plays out inside the ring, outside the ring. This key to the impact that wrestling has on humanity and popular culture. As Roland Barthes, French literary theorist and philosopher, professional wrestling is like “perfect intelligibility of reality,” “a pure, full, and rounded nature (Barthes 25). Susan Sontag wrote “Notes on 'Camp '” Professional wrestling is much like ‘Camp’ as she writes, “the love of the exaggerated, the ‘off,’ of…

According to Saussure, a sign is a combination of a sound-image or “signifier” and concept or “signified”. One key concept in understanding semiotics is that the relationship between the signifier and the signified is always arbitrary. But since there is no logical connection between a word and a concept, the meanings that signifiers posses must somehow be learned. This implies that there are certain “codes” that evolve within a society or culture, which help individuals generate meaning from…

vivid colors, two-dimensional lines and shapes that appear to have three-dimensional depth, and above all there is no sign of a brushstroke. These stylistic characteristics correlate well with the pieces of Pop art movement. In the late 1970’s, Roland Barthes, a literary theorist and philosopher, wrote that the Pop artist “has no depth: he is merely the surface of his pictures, no signified, no intention, anywhere.” In this way, Victor Vasarely and his art stand in stark contrast and would…

With my visual argument project my main intent was to portray the idea of the current and upcoming generations dependency of their mobile/technological devices. The reason I chose this argument in particular because I have seen this problem being very prominent first had. I feel that everywhere I go I see young children constantly on their cellphone and technological devices. I see this in my own family too, when we were younger (older cousins and I) we were constantly outdoor plays sports or…

The attraction of professional wrestling. Professional wrestling is half theater, half stee chair shots to the head. Professional wrestling may never be commonly understood. Each adult admirer of professional wrestling has encountered those people who turn their heads and ask, “You do know it’s fake, right?” “I don’t care. I love the pageantry, the athleticism, even the incredibly cheesy acting. I look at wrestling as theater at it 's most base, and guess what? So do most of the fans. We know…