methods and principles of teaching english
s/z
Roland Barthes
TRANSLATED BY
R.idYtrl Miller
PREFACE BY
Ridunl HowanJ
•A
Blackwell
Translation © 1974 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
Originally published in French as S/Z
Copyright © 1973 by Editions du Seuil, Paris
350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5018, USA
108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 UF, UK
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher.
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New York, NY 10003, USA
First published in the United Kingdom 1990 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Reprinted 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
ISBN 0·631·17607·1 (paperback)
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Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by Athena:um Press Ltd, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
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Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com I. EVALUATION
There are said to be certain Buddhists whose ascetic practices enable them to see a whole landscape in a bean. Precisely what the first analysts of narrative were attempting: to see all the world's stories (and there have been ever so many) within a single structure: we shall, they thought, extract from each tale its model, then out of these models we shall make a great narrative structure, which we shall reapply (for verification) to anyone narrative: a task as exhausting (ninety-nine percent perspiration, as the saying goes) as it is ultimately undesirable, for the text thereby loses its difference. This difference is not,
Roland Barthes
TRANSLATED BY
R.idYtrl Miller
PREFACE BY
Ridunl HowanJ
•A
Blackwell
Translation © 1974 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
Originally published in French as S/Z
Copyright © 1973 by Editions du Seuil, Paris
350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5018, USA
108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 UF, UK
550 Swanston Street, Carlton South, Melbourne, Victoria 3053, Australia
Kurfllrstendamm 57, 10707 Berlin, Germany
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Published by arrangement with
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
19 Union Square West
New York, NY 10003, USA
First published in the United Kingdom 1990 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Reprinted 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
ISBN 0·631·17607·1 (paperback)
A catalogue record for this title is available fi"om the British Library.
Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by Athena:um Press Ltd, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
For further information on
Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com I. EVALUATION
There are said to be certain Buddhists whose ascetic practices enable them to see a whole landscape in a bean. Precisely what the first analysts of narrative were attempting: to see all the world's stories (and there have been ever so many) within a single structure: we shall, they thought, extract from each tale its model, then out of these models we shall make a great narrative structure, which we shall reapply (for verification) to anyone narrative: a task as exhausting (ninety-nine percent perspiration, as the saying goes) as it is ultimately undesirable, for the text thereby loses its difference. This difference is not,