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A hot Barthes
Bit of a problem today with a Muslim student who thought I was making an adverse statement about the author of the Qu'ran during a class on Roland Barthes' 'Death of the Author'.
If ever this theory should apply to anything, it has to be to this issue wherein a text's meaning is constantly misinterpreted with disastrous consequences.
But then again, why should he take on board any Western theory?
If ever this theory should apply to anything, it has to be to this issue wherein a text's meaning is constantly misinterpreted with disastrous consequences.
But then again, why should he take on board any Western theory?
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