Barthes and ‘Subtle Forms of Living’

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Marielle Macé
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Ethical Complexity

A life cannot be dissociated from its forms (its ways, regimes, spaces, and rhythms) for these forms are also ideas of what life should be. This question is keenly felt today, especially in our ways of experiencing politics: we need ‘other sorts of life’, ‘other ways of living’, other rhythms and connections. Yet these phrases are often emptied of their meaning: they are the stock-in-trade of advertising, which allows us to dream of passing from one lifestyle to another without regard for the ethical complexity of what Pavese called ‘the business of living’. Roland Barthes helps us here. Right from his sanatorium years, and all that it cost him to become aware, so young, of the life made for us by daily routines, food, the weather, our ways of relating to others, and through to La Préparation du roman (which reflected on how everyday life must be organised to lead to a literary work), Barthes was always conscious of the seriousness of what the forms of living entail, in all their precision and detail. This chapter tracks the constancy of this conviction in Barthes’s trajectory, from the early sanatorium correspondence to Comment vivre ensemble and Journal de deuil.

scholarly journals B.S. Johnson’s Liberatic Cityscape in Albert Angelo

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Biela
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Visual Sensitivity ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Way

For Bryan Stanley Johnson, a British post-war avant-garde author, space was a crucial aspect of a literary work. Inspired by architects and film makers, he was convinced that “form follows function” (“Introduction” to Aren’t You Rather Young to Be Writing Your Memoirs) and exercised the book as a material object, thus anticipating liberature – a literary genre defined in 1999 by Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik, which encompasses works whose authors purposefully fuse the content with the form. The goal of this paper is to analyse the cityscape theme in Johnson’s second novel, Albert Angelo (1964), in which London is presented as space that accompanies the character in his everyday life and becomes a witness of the formation of his identity. The protagonist is an architect by profession, so special attention is paid to his visual sensitivity and the way the cityscape is reflected in his memories. Furthermore, Johnson’s formal exploitation of the book as an object and its correspondence to the content is analysed with reference to the metaphor of “[t]he book as an architectural structure” discussed by Bazarnik in Liberature. A Book-bound Genre.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 271-284
Author(s):  
Ken Hirschkop
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Social ◽  
Second World

The conclusion examines the situation after the Second World War. It shows how the linguistic turn in analytic philosophy ended and how the social democratic settlement in Western Europe gave birth to the new linguistic turns known as structuralism. The author explores the former by examining the career of Richard Rorty and the latter by looking at how Roland Barthes combines ideas from Saussure with a project for a radical analysis of French everyday life in the Mythologies. The book concludes with a review of how the various linguistic turns overinvested in the idea of language.

Death

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-116
Author(s):  
Benoît Peeters
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Genre Conventions ◽  
Death Of The Author

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay ‘The Death of the Author’ looms large over any attempt to argue for the renewed necessity of incorporating considerations of authorship into the study of world literature. Less than a decade after the publication of ‘Death of the Author’, however, Barthes followed up on it with an autobiography, albeit a deeply unorthodox one. In tracing the fortunes of this autobiography through subsequent editions and translations, the graphic novelist, biographer, and comics expert Benoît Peeters demonstrates how our image of an author, just like our understanding of a literary work according to Barthes’s structuralist understanding, is conditioned by unconscious and even impersonal forces. The simple decision by an editor unfamiliar with the contents of Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes to exchange a cover illustration in order to make the book more closely conform to genre conventions can have devastating consequences.

scholarly journals POLITIK KEBUDAYAAN DALAM NOVEL SINDEN KARYA PURWADMADI ADMADIPURWA: KAJIAN SEMIOTIKA ROLAND BARTHES

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Nuri Dwi Vindriana ◽  
Sunarti Mustamar ◽  
Sri Mariati
Keyword(s):  
Structural Data ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
The Impact

This study relies on cultural political issues in the Sinden novel to be analyzed using the concept of Roland Barthes mythology. The mythology looks at the form of speech, including a literary work that reflects and reduces social discourse, cultural, ideological and historical. The method used in this research is a qualitative research method. The analysis has two stages of the sign system. The first system is the sign of denotative sign reading that takes the structural data covering themes, characters, conflicts, and settings that will produce signs. The results mark the first sign of the system as a new marker for a myth reading on both sign system. The reading of the myth in the Sinden novel generates political discourse cultures that reflect events in Indonesia with 1960s background. This study aims to describe the cultural issues covered by political interests and reveal the impact of cultural-political events experienced by the grassroots and increase appreciation of the reader in understanding the Sinden novel. 

scholarly journals A book as an attribute of everyday life culture (based on the German classics)

Bibliosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
N. N. Misyurov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Inner World

The functional role of books (scientific, artistic, philosophical, religious and moralistic) in the public prac­tice of the German Enlightenment is comparable to the significance of such major national concepts as the Lutheran faith and a special German character. The idea of aesthetic education in contemporary historical circumstances and socio-political circumstances actually became the ideology of national self-determina­tion. The book, its semantic «images» as literary reading images enshrined in famous works of German clas­sics, helps better revealing the spiritual content of the era and the human inner world (in typical «hero of time»). Educational book (serious and entertaining) defines the vector of social development in Germany.  German book in its «materiality» belongs to the everyday life culture, reflects the level of development of the book business in Germany and the specificity of the «culture of consumption». Everyday life culture is a holistic «life world» shared «values» and «meanings» perceived as a world attitudes and behavioral habits and regarded as a natural space of human activity. Such an approach makes it possible to study the typical, recurring forms of «cultural practices», before remaining on the periphery of classical humanities. «Reading» could be attributed to this range of socio-cultural practices. Philosophical basis of the study is the following: everything that a thing opens our perception is simply «a scheme of sensation» changing in accordance with «angles», in which we perceive them; what the thing is in its materiality can be revealed only through our final experiences. A material thing and its «causality» base in sensory perception of a subject. This series of «material things» should include «the book in general» and specifically German book as an attribute of everyday life culture of the Enlightenment. The author investigates representations of meanings of «books» (ash an abstracted subject of study) realized in the «chronotope» of a literary work. The structure of «reading image» and «book image» identified during the texts analysis of famous masterpieces of German classics have a moral connotation.  

scholarly journals PENERAPAN SEMIOLOGI BARTHES PADA MANTRA TUKANG PIJIT

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
Misbah Priagung Nursalim ◽  
Rima Tiana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Material Function ◽  
Magical Power ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Abstract: A charm is a subgenre of old poetry that is still considered to have strength. Because the power possessed by a charm makes people consider it sacred. However, apart from that, the mantra is only a part of literary work which contains meaning and of course there is no magical element. This study discusses the meaning in massage charm in Pondok Petir area. The author uses Roland Barthes's semiology theory to analyze the meaning of the charm. This study also uses descriptive qualitative methods to analyze the meaning and form of charms. The results prove that the massage charm does not have magical power. The charm is only an old literary work in which it contains the meaning of certain commands depending on the material function. Because charms are old poems, so charms also pay attention to the beauty of the shape and the sound.Abstrak: Mantra merupakan subgenre puisi lama yang sampai saat ini masih dianggap memiliki kekuatan sehingga membuat masyarakat menganggapnya suci. Namun, terlepas dari itu, mantra hanyalah sebuah bagian dari karya sastra yang di dalamnya menyimpan makna dan tentu tidak ada unsur magis. Penelitian ini secara umum membahas mengenai studi makna pada mantra tukang pijit di daerah Pondok Petir. Penulis menggunakan teori semiologi Roland Barthes untuk mengkaji makna yang terkandung di dalam mantra tersebut. Metode kualitiatif deskriptif digunakan untuk menganalisis makna dan bentuk mantra. Hasil penelitian ini membuktikan bahwa mantra tukang pijit tidak mempunyai kekuatan magis. Mantra hanya karya sastra lama yang di dalamnya menyimpan makna berupa perintah tertentu tergantung fungsi matera tersebut. Karena mantra merupakan puisi lama, jadi mantera juga memperhatikan keindahan bentuk dan bunyi bahasanya.   

scholarly journals PESAN MORAL PERNIKAHAN PADA FILM WEDDING AGREEMENT (ANALISIS SEMIOTIKA ROLAND BARTHES)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nita Khairani Amanda ◽  
Yayu Sriwartini
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Effective Media ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
One Year

<p align="center"><strong>ABSTRAK</strong></p><p>Media massa film dipilih sebagai media yang paling efektif dalam menyampaikan pesan, karena film dapat digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran melalui pesan yang direpresentasikan ke dalam adegan atau narasi cerita. Pelajaran yang dapat diambil berupa pesan moral, atau salah satunya tentang pesan moral pernikahan yang terkandung dalam Film <em>Wedding Agreement. </em>Film ini membahas sisi kehidupan pernikahan yang dipermainkan, dengan adanya perjanjian pernikahan yang menyebutkan pasangan akan bercerai usai satu tahun pernikahan.<em> </em>Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif  dengan  sifat  penelitian  deskriptif.<em> </em>Penelitian ini mengunakan metode analisis semiotika Roland Barthes, dalam analisis ini terdapat tiga hal inti yang menjadi fokus yaitu makna Denotatif, Konotatif, dan Mitos yang digunakan peneliti sebagai panduan untuk melihat pengambaran terkait pesan moral pernikahan yang tergambar disetiap adegan film. Data yang didapatkan dalam penelitian ini bersumber dari aplikasi Iflix yang menayangkan Film <em>Wedding Agreement </em>dan<em> </em>digabungkan dengan buku-buku yang membahas mengenai film dan pesan moral pernikahan. Hasil penelitian yang menunjukan bahwa representasi pesan moral pernikahan yang tampil dalam film <em>Wedding Agreement, </em>adalah berupa pemenuhan hak dan kewajiban seorang suami istri. Seperti, kewajiban saling menjaga hubungan, mencintai satu sama lain, menghormati satu sama lain, dan memenuhi kebutuhan rumah tangga. Dalam film ini sutradara ingin menonjolkan sisi bagaimana cara seorang pasangan untuk menjaga hubungan mereka dengan menggabungkan nilai budaya pernikahan indonesia dan nilai-nilai pernikahan agama islam yang dapat dijadikan sebuah pembelajaran bagi penonton film <em>Wedding Agreement.</em> Selain itu, film ini tidak hanya memiliki pesan moral pernikahan, tetapi terdapat pesan moral lainnya yang berhubungan dengan kehidupan sehari-hari.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Kata Kunci : </strong>Kata Kunci : Semiotika, Film, Pesan Moral Pernikahan</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p align="center"><strong><em>ABSTRACT</em></strong></p><p><em>Film mass media was chosen as the most effective media in conveying messages, because film can be used as a learning medium through messages that are represented in scenes or narratives of stories. Lessons can be taken in the form of moral messages, or one of them is about the moral messages of marriage contained in the Film Wedding Agreement. This film discusses the side of married life being mocked, with a marriage agreement that says the couple will divorce after one year of marriage. This type of research is qualitative with the nature of descriptive research. This study uses Roland Barthes's semiotic analysis method, in this analysis there are three core things that are the focus, namely the Denotative, Connotative, and Mythical meaning used by researchers as a guide to see the depiction of marriage moral messages drawn in each film scene. The data obtained in this study is sourced from the Iflix application that shows Film Wedding Agreement and is combined with books that discuss the film and the moral message of marriage. The results showed that the representation of the moral message of marriage that appears in the film Wedding Agreement, is in the form of fulfilling the rights and obligations of a husband and wife. Like, the obligation to maintain mutual relations, love one another, respect each other, and meet the needs of the household. In this film the director wants to highlight the side of how a couple to maintain their relationship by combining the cultural values of Indonesian marriage and the values of Islamic religious marriage that can be used as a lesson for filmmakers of the Wedding Agreement. In addition, this film not only has a moral message of marriage, but there are other moral messages related to everyday life.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>Semiotics, Film, Marriage Moral Message</em></p>

scholarly journals Prehistoric Households and Childhood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Röder
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Maintenance Activities ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Activity Areas

From the perspective of contemporary societies ‘childhood’ and ‘household’ are not universal, static categories but rather culturally highly variable dimensions of social life which can be influenced by numerous factors. They appear to be complex social processes, entwined with each other, and are characterized by changing actors. The material traces of these processes in the prehistoric archaeological record are rudimentary and offer no immediate access to ‘childhood’ or ‘household’, but domestic or maintenance activities are relatively well recorded at settlement sites and therefore offer the best vantage point from which to approach the question of social construction and organization, the structuring of everyday life, and the part played by adolescents in these processes. This chapter focuses on the role played by adolescents in the formation of archaeologically tangible activity areas to gain insight into the participation of prehistoric children in the construction of everyday life and daily routines.

The Matter of Beckett's Facts

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Steven Connor
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Medical Fact ◽  
Reality Effect

An important part of Beckett's engagement with the matter-of-factness of modern everyday life is the literal concern in his writing with matters of fact. The collection and exchange of atomised facts has become part of the ordinary texture of social life, in modern societies in which facts are both abundantly available and provide everyday discourse with calming lubrication. It is clear from Beckett's notebooks that he had an Autolycean appetite for striking trifles of knowledge. The essay discusses examples of natural knowledge and medical fact in Beckett's writing, along with the names which erupt with juddering specificity into the generalised, frequentative world of repeated actions and nameless entities. The essay argues that, if facts provide meditative consolation, they can also enact something of the aggressive-defensive dissolution of connections identified in W.R. Bion's concept of ‘attacks on linking’. Where for Roland Barthes, arbitrary facts enact a reality effect, giving a legitimating and luxurious kind of surplus to the act of signification, facts in Beckett evoke the capacity of unintelligible ordinariness to interrupt the play of meaning-making. The essay concludes that matters of fact in Beckett are therefore at once mundane and exotic, signalling the insignificant universality of facticity.

scholarly journals Barthes’s positive theory of the author

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Harri Veivo
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Positive Theory ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Individual Point ◽  
Literary Work Of Art

While it is well known that Roland Barthes consecrated his last lecture series at the Collège de France to the theme of the preparation of a novel, it is less known that his first writings on literature focused on the same question, but from a less individual point of view. The interrogation that motivates Le Degré zéro de l’écriture (1953) and many of the essays in Essais critiques (1964) is the question of how to write, of what procedures one can follow in preparing a literary work of art. At the two ends of Barthes’s career one finds the same themes of writing as action and of the writer’s possibilities and motivations in writing. The article explores the hypothesis that there is ground for a positive theory of the author in Barthes’s work. It seeks to discover similarities between writings from the early and the late period that concern three themes: (1) writing as action, (2) the deferral of its achievement, and (3) writing as representation. The article ends with a discussion on the relationships between Barthes’s positive theory of the author and related important issues that have been discussed recently in literary criticism.

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