L’effet de réel revisited: Barthes and the affective image

This article addresses Barthes’s development from a structuralist semiotician towards an affectively responding reader in terms of ‘postrational’ subjectivity. In light of his whole oeuvre, Barthes anticipates the understanding of emotion as an integral part of cognition presented in contemporary so...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sirkka Knuuttila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2008-12-01
Series:Sign Systems Studies
Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/17475