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    CONSUMER Texts: Barthes in S/Z

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    Barthes argues that the goal of literature is to make the reader a producer rather than just a consumer of the text. Traditional literature divorces the reader from the producer and positions the reader in a passive role. In contrast, a "writerly text" aims to make the reader an active participant in constructing the text. Barthes also notes that without the archetype of Oedipus and the death of the father figure, literature would lose some of its pleasures and purposes, as many narratives are shaped by the search for origins stemming from this archetype.

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    Barthes argues that the goal of literature is to make the reader a producer rather than just a consumer of the text. Traditional literature divorces the reader from the producer and positions the reader in a passive role. In contrast, a "writerly text" aims to make the reader an active participant in constructing the text. Barthes also notes that without the archetype of Oedipus and the death of the father figure, literature would lose some of its pleasures and purposes, as many narratives are shaped by the search for origins stemming from this archetype.

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    Barthes argues that the goal of literature is to make the reader a producer rather than just a consumer of the text. Traditional literature divorces the reader from the producer and positions the reader in a passive role. In contrast, a "writerly text" aims to make the reader an active participant in constructing the text. Barthes also notes that without the archetype of Oedipus and the death of the father figure, literature would lose some of its pleasures and purposes, as many narratives are shaped by the search for origins stemming from this archetype.

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    CONSUMER texts: Barthes in S/Z - the goal of literary work (of literature as work) is to make the reader no longer

    a consumer, but
    a producer of the text. Our literature is characterized by the pitiless divorcebetween the producer of the text and its user, between its owner and its customer, between its author and its reader. This reader is thereby plunged into a kind of idlenesshe is intransitive; he is, in short, serious. Opposite the writerly text, then, is its countervalue, its negative, reactive value: what can be read but not written: the readerly. We call any readerly text a classic text. OEDIPUS In Pleasure of the Text: Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesnt every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isnt storytelling always a way of searching for ones origin. As fiction, Oedipus was at least good for something: to make good novels.

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