| John Caughie - 1981 - 332 pages
...sublime and comic and whose profound ridiculousness indicates precisely the truth of writing, the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them. Did he wish to express himself,... | |
| Mark C. Taylor - 1987 - 233 pages
...source" but a "paper I," composed of a "plurality of texts. " 45 Never able to originate, "the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them. Did he wish to express himself, he ought at least to know that the inner 'thing' he thinks... | |
| Peter J. Frost - 1991 - 414 pages
...clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture ... the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest in any one of them. Did he wish to express himself,... | |
| Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - 1991 - 364 pages
...the anonymous blending and clashing of tissued texts concludes with a clash of its own: "The writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the other" (146). Not an "it" in the text, the writer, just for a moment in Barthes's text,... | |
| Paul Crowther - 1993 - 228 pages
...innumerable centres of culture. . . . His [the author's] only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them.1 Whilst Barthes's remarks here are addressed to literature, they clearly have prima-facie... | |
| Brian Vickers - 1994 - 532 pages
...then explicitly denied the writer — any writer — the very possibility of creativity: 'the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...never original. His only power is to mix writings', those produced by earlier writers, all of whom suffered from the same mistaken idea, each thinking... | |
| John Docker - 1994 - 348 pages
...them original, blend and clash', and the writer's 'only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them'.2 1 have tried to 'stage' my narrative as a scene of many writings coming together, as... | |
| David Graddol, Oliver Boyd-Barrett - 1994 - 304 pages
...gesture that is always anterior, never original. I lis only power is to mix writings, tu counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them. Did he wish to express himself, he ought at least to know that the inner 'thing' he thinks... | |
| Arran Gare - 1995 - 206 pages
...variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash'.83 The truth of writing is that the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them.84 In place of the message... | |
| Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso - 1996 - 266 pages
...are all prefabricated and cliched. They certainly corroborate Barthes's contention that "the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as to never rest with any one of them. Did he wish to express himself,... | |
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