On Roland Barthes’s Practice Of Disenchantment Criticism

Bart on the study of literature and popular culture are mostly related to thedsenchantment of ideology behind. Throughout his theoretical writings, from"Mythology" to "zero writing”, then the "death of the author", his criticism ofideology in literary and cultural discourse, are visible. Literary and cultural becomesymbolic, signifier be fixed, they were all obscured by the ideology with myths. Bartcan not tolerate the camouflage of ideological myth. Therefore, dispel the myths madeby ideology, is the important task of theoretical work for Bart. Thus form his uniquedisenchantment criticism.Bart’s central concept of disenchantment criticism reflected in literary criticism isthat the myths in the literary world must be crushed one by one. Bart put forward "TheDeath of the Author", which based on the "zero writing”, he ruins the king, namely theauthor, who is the guider of the absolute sovereign in the literature and myth world.Facing to the “only significance” which was deified in text, Bart emphasized “text”. Hefirmly believes that in the text, the practice of means has a broad space; it’s theimportant dimension of revaluing the value of the text. And when the focus transfers tothe mass culture, facing up on the huge mythical Empire composed by all kinds ofgoods and phenomenon with "fairy label", Bart uses Symbol Analysis to decode themyth of various cultural phenomena and reveal its invisible operation tools that isbourgeois ideology.Regardless to the myth decoding to the author and text, or to the mass culture, in aword, it is to dispel the ideological shackles, restore a real world and free the people.This is the important clue that throughout Bart’s theory and practice, which based on thedeconstruction, but beyond deconstruction. By combing Bart disenchantment criticalpractice, people can revalue Bart’s theory practice significance.