History of forms and the tones of criticism: on Roland Barthes' Writing Degree Zero /Historia das formas e os tons da critica: uma releitura de O grau zero da escrita, de Roland Barthes
Initially, Writing Degree Zero (1953), the first Roland Barthes' book, consists of a history of modern literature from mid-nineteenth century to mid-twentieth. However, Barthes provides very few data about general history as well as about history of literature, what makes his first book hard to...
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Published in | Alea : estudos neolatinos Vol. 16; no. 2; p. 346 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | Spanish |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Letras (UFRJ)
01.07.2014
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Summary: | Initially, Writing Degree Zero (1953), the first Roland Barthes' book, consists of a history of modern literature from mid-nineteenth century to mid-twentieth. However, Barthes provides very few data about general history as well as about history of literature, what makes his first book hard to understand even today. This paper intends to discuss the possible meanings of these gaps, linking them to Barthes' aim (a story of modern literary forms). Then these possible meanings will be compared to the tone assumed by the essayist' writing on the history narrated by himself, in an attempt to identify and discuss their possible ambivalences. Keywords: Literary history; modernity; rhetoric; Roland Barthes. Em principio, pode-se dizer que O grau zero da escrita (1953), primeiro livro do ensaista frances Roland Barthes (1915-1980), consiste em uma historia da literatura moderna de meados do seculo XIX a meados do XX. Ocorre que, nesse processo, Barthes se vale de pouquissimos dados relativos tanto a historia geral quanto a historia da literatura, tornando o livro, ainda hoje, de delicada compreensao. Este artigo pretende se dedicar aos possiveis sentidos dessas lacunas, vinculando-as a particularidade mesma da historia visada por Barthes (uma historia das formas literarias modernas). Em seguida, sera realizada sua contraposicao ao tom assumido pela escrita do ensaista diante da historia por ele mesmo narrada, na tentativa de identificar e de discutir suas possiveis ambivalencias. Palavras-chave: Historia da literatura; modernidade; retorica; Roland Barthes. Premier livre de Roland Barthes, Le degre zero de l'ecriture (1953) voudrait etre lu comme une histoire de la litterature moderne a partir de la moitie du dix-neuvieme siecle, jusqu'a la moitie du vingtieme. Toutefois, Barthes nous offre tres peu de donnees sur l'histoire generale et sur l'histoire de la litterature, ce qui rend son premier livre difficile a comprendre, encore aujourd'hui. Cet article se propose de discuter le sens de ces lacunes, en les mettant a l'epreuve des buts declares par Barthes (de faire une histoire des formes litteraires modernes). Ensuite, ces lacunes sont aussi pensees par rapport au ton de cette ecriture historique, a fin d'essayer d'identifier et de discuter ses ambivalences. Mots-cles: Histoire litteraire; modernite; rhetorique; Roland Barthes. |
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ISSN: | 1517-106X |