Structured Text. Roland Barthes Theoretical Research

Roland Barthes is the master of structuralism and post-structuralism. Roland Barthes' text theory impact on the literary world in France and even the academe of world. Roland Barthes' text theory underwent the following two stages: the stage of structuralism and the stage of post-structuralism. In the stage of structuralism, Roland Barthes' research work mainly focus on the generative research of text. The stage of post-structuralism is Roland Barthes' text stage. At this stage, Roland Barthes is absorbed the deconstruction, with which lead the readers to the literary criticism, and begin to revealed the essential attributes of text. This paper elaborates on Roland Barthes' post-structuralism text theory.The change of Roland Barthes' text theory is result from both internal and external causes. The external causes include the social cause ( with the"May Revolution of francese", the enthusiasm of the masses'ideology of anti-authority is highly raised ), the historical reasons (with the promotion of the human acquaintance power,everything is named signifiance starte to generalize ), and cultural atmosphere (the influence of mikhail bakhtin'dialogue theory and Jacques Derrida'deconstruction). The internal cause—Roland barthes found that structural inherent system has insurmountable disadvantages in the process of constructing. On that basis, Roland Barthes begin to challenge the das sprachsystem and the methodology of structuralism'dualit.As for Roland Barthes' Post-poststructuralist Text Theory, substitutive characteristics have two aspects---the intertextuality of text and the productivity of text. The intertextuality of text is that text is texture from the diachronism and synchronicity. Text shows itself as fragment,nolinear and autopoiesis. After the works changes into the text and the visible texts chang into the le scriptible texts, the productivity of the texts that made by readers'organization. The productivity of text is signifying practice which based on difference of internal text,in reshaping text by Reading,forgetting and rereading. After"the death of the author", readers start to"write"the text and enjoy itself by while-reading activities."The text of the plesure"is a text in which readers can enjoy it while it is readed. It is the ideal form of Roland Barthes' post-poststructuralist text theory. The text of the plesure has two types (texte de plaisir and texte de jouissance). Roland Barthes especially appreciated the texte de jouissance. It incarnates man's dynamic role.Through out the Roland Barthes'views of post-poststructuralist text theory, it has a tendency of anti-authority and anti-system and a aspirations of the literariness and freedom. Roland Barthes'views of post-poststructuralist text theory is affirmative, but the theory itself has entirely insurmountable disadvantages. Firstly, it even dissever text from the natural world and the society.Secondly, it lacks of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Thirdly, it uses the fleeting pleasurein instead of the sense of beauty. Finally, the aesthetic ideology of elitism can not be achieved.