"The Death Of Author" And "Reliable Carnival"

Roland Barthes's theory of the text's meaning has always been in the eyes of the readers in the form of discourse, and he believes that the text of his is only a discourse which can not be understood. Although his article appears to be the combination of words which are not related to each other, but we believe that his text still can be interpreted, and we can grasp his theory of the text's meaning from his text.By understanding Bart's texts, we find that theory of the text's meaning involves the following aspects.First, the author and writing. Roland Barthes started from "writing" to built his own theory of the text's meaning. Bart believed that, as the bourgeoisie gained dominance in politics, and bourgeois' way of writing obtained a huge victory. This writing style is a form of political writing, which led the language and the reader to loss freedom. Thus, Barth claimed that the classical writing had come into a crisis era. To this end, Barth presented a new type of writing - the "Zero writing", which can save writing from the crisis. The so-called "zero writing" was simply a straight,neutral and intransitive writing. In this case, the relationship between the author and writing was completely reshaped, and the author's writing was not a conscious writing or the expression of an idea. In this way, in the text's logical starting point, Barth differented the author and the text.Barth's "zero writing" is not scientific. On one hand, First, Bart himself was pessimistic for the possibility of the "Zero Writing" theory. In "Writing Degree Zero", Bart constantly refers to "tear" "Bound" "desperate" "fate" and other words with a strong pessimistic atmosphere. He believes that even if the "zero writing" could eventually be achieved, but that would meant a new generation of writing specifications, which would also play a constraint role. Therefore, he said: "Unfortunately, there is nothing more than a white writing to be real." On the other hand, Bart denied that the relationship between the author and writing is a generalization of "doxa". He did not correctly grasp the real crisis of classical writing, and political and purposeful writing style did not mean that writing had come into a certain age of crisis. In the history of human thought, all of the writing had purpose. This is not caused by the victory of the bourgeois revolution. Bart did not make a distinction for the writing from the object. Because in the diverse style of writing, in addition to political writing, there are also other writing style. Bart is clearly commited error that he has an incomplete view.Second, the author and the text. After proofing that the writing style should be a zero writing, Bart claimed that the "author dead". "The Death of Author" was another strategy to deconstruct the traditional text meaning theory. He believed that we lived in an age of trusting the author. High above the text of the rule of power completely stifle the freedom of the reader. The author's high ruling power of the text completely stifled the freedom of the reader. Thus, Bart believed that the rebirth of the readers must be the cost of the author's death. The author shouldn't appear as the authority of the text, because he does not exist from the beginning, and has nothing with the text and the meaning of the text.Bart's "Death of author" theory has rationality and unreasonable side.The reasonableness of the "Death of Author" is that once the author finishes the writing of the text, he hermits. When he refaces his own version of the text, the author becomes the reader. The author, as the absolute authority of the text, dead. And the reader may grasp more deeply than the author. The unreasonableness of the "Death of Author" is that it contains irreconcilable contradiction. There are two contradictory. First of all, Bart's "Death of Author" theory goes against the historical fact. In human history, both in the West and China, the significance of the text has always been given by the author. Secondly, there is a paradox in Barth's "Death of Author" theory logically. There is a false premise in the theory, which is that any of the authors are omniscient and omnipotent type, but the fact is that the literary world at that time was not in favor of this kind author. The views in the mainstream advocated the dialogue based author. Bart did not notice or deliberately neglected the academic progress of that time. Meanwhile, Bart has also given up his "Death of Author" point in his old age.Third, the text and meaning. For his analysis and criticism of the existing literature situation, Bart believes that it is not right to see the text as a product, and the real text should not be the output, but the production. The text is just the game of the reliable carnival. Bart also used the myth to metaphor the significance of the text. In his view, the meaning of the text is as the same as the myth.Barth's text meaning theory is not scientific. What is the text? According to the traditional understanding, the text is the symbol to express and transfer human thought. Licorne once defined the text as: "Any words written by the fixed form. "On one hand, the text performances as the text message system; on the other hand, it showed some significance and a certain amount of thought and spirit. The text is the unity of the symbol and meaning. There was a contradiction between the recognition of work as a product and the freedom of the reader's. First of all, according to Bart's logic, thede fined text, the authors and readers can not be recognized. Secondly, according to Bart's logic, Language can not only become free, but will lose the possibility of existence. Thirdly, an absurd conclusion can be drawn from his work that the author could not be responsible for his own work. Forthly, according to Bart's logic, we can conclude that the reader's right or wrong understanding does not matter. In addition, Bart's definition of text meaning will lead to other conflicts.We believe that, the meaning of the text refers that it can convey the author's ideas and feelings. Meaning is not a "presence", and it is neither a material existence, nor the spirit existence. We believe that the text has its meaning, because the text can convey the author's thoughts and feelings. The text is the author's spititual work, and the meaning of the text is given by the author. Once the text is finished, the meaning will not change. The meaning of the text can be grasped by the readers, and the purpose of reading is grasping the meaning of the text. Because understanding is the understanding of certain historical conditions, and the grasping of he text's meaning is relative, but there are absolute ingredients contained, which is some elements to correctly understand the meaning of the author.