Text · Sound · Photography

Roland Barthes(1915-1980),one of the most important literary theorists and critics in France,whose text theory after 1968 has been enriched,is the one of theoretical center in the study of western literary theory.This article put the main view at his theory on structuralism,starting from three aspects: the subjectivity of text,the aesthetic characteristics of text,the inherent orientation(pleasantness)of text.This article put two special texts including sound text(loud writing)and photographic text(photographing "writing")into the system of Barthes’ s text theory for analysis and research,trying to draw a clear context and point the uniqueness of Barthes’ s post-structuralist textual view,discovering the reference significance of his textual view for the development and application of contemporary society.Starting from the origin and introduction of Barthes’ s text theory,this article is divided into three parts.The first part starts with the subjectivity of the text and mainly analyzes the production and interpretation of the text.The first section,starting from Barthes’ s turning work,The Death of the Author,analyzes the premise of the development of his textual view,that is,how the author entered the death and ushered in the liberation of the reader.The second section introduces readable text and writable text,discusses the transformation of readers’ roles,and emphasizes the birth of readers who participated in writing.In the third section,the subject theory in the perspective of Barthes is analyzed in combination with Lacan’s subject philosophy to arrive a conclusion: The subject hidden in the text.The second part mainly examines the aesthetic characteristics of the text,meanwhile puts forward two special text forms: sound text(loud “writing”)and photographic text(photographing "writing").According to Barthes’ s relevant discussions,this part sorts out characteristics of these two types of special text.The first section focusing on macro analysis,comprehensively analyzes the infinity of signifiers,the intertextuality of texts and Barthes’ s fragment writing.The second section proposes loud writing,and discusses from sound-text,listening to speaking,and sound-body.The third section comes up with proposes the photographing writing,examining it from three aspects: photos and images,interest and thorns,and photography’s self-transcendence.The third part starts from the perspective of text acceptance,combining Barthes’ s macro theory,writing practice,and its specific theoretical research on written text,sound text,photographic text,image text,etc.This part discusses on the joy of text,the love of text(body,eroticism)and the deconstruction and reconstruction of the textual meaning,exploring the final approach to the text proposed by Barthes,that is,the internal direction of the text: text hedonism-the joy of the text.Finally,through sorting out and summarizing post-structuralism’s textual view of Barthes,inquiring into his reflection and transcendence of his earlier structuralist ideas,analyzing the way he tended to the dissolution of the central meaning and the rebellion against the ideological meaning,this ariticle finds out the reference significance of Barthes’ s textual view for the development and application of contemporary society.