...specificity of interpretation only to appropriate it for a rational psychology of the text: writing, 'that oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost' becomes an act of perverse dissimulation.1s University of Wales College of Cardiff NOTES 1 See 'On...

...Is it universal wisdom? Romantic psychology? We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point...starting with the very identity of the body writing. No doubt it has always been that way. As soon as a fact is narrated no longer with a view to acting...

...Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (Seabury Press, 1975), p. 245. " "... writing is the deconstruction of every voice, of every point of origin, Writing...starting with the very identity of the body writing." Barthes, Image, Music, Text, p. 142. 54 The classic texts are JL Austin, How to Do Things With Words...

...this where we must stop? This is the same point to which Barthes took us earlier when he wrote that "writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space...subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost."42 This is precisely the point of decision, where genuine interpretation, however forbidding,...

...proclaimed "The death of the Author" 32 in l968: We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point...lost, starting with the very identity of the body. No doubt it has always been that way. As soon as a fact is narrated no longer with a view to acting...

...juncture where feminist analyses are working to establish voice. For instance, Barthes argues further that "writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space...starting with the very identity of the body writing" (142, emphasis mine). He believes that emphasis on the "Author," on the "body writing," imposes limitations...

...Dedalus as well. "Writing," Barthes writes — and by which he means ecriture, postmodern writing — "is the destruction of every voice, of every point...starting with the very identity of the body writing" (IMT 142). To paraphrase Yeats again, Stephen at the start of Ulysses realizes that Romantic poetry's...

..."Against Interpretation" (1964). In einer an Derrida erinnernden Passage schreibt Barthes: writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point...where all identity is lost, starting with the very identiy of the body writing. (Barthes 1968:142) Der Tod des 'Autors' bedeutet den Moment, in dem ein...

...critique of the author raised the problem of how precisely an authorial subject is figured in the text; 'Writing is that neutral composite. oblique space...starting with the very identity of the body writing' (Barthes 1977a: 142. my emphasis). Women might be expected to have a vested interest in the disappearance...

..."who is speaking thus," Barthes announces that "We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point...Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where. . . all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing" (142). FitzRalph pondered...