Roland Barthes,the outstanding thinker as well as the semiologist of France,has left great contribution to us human beings.His The Death of the Author made a strong,polemical argument against the centrality of the fig...Roland Barthes,the outstanding thinker as well as the semiologist of France,has left great contribution to us human beings.His The Death of the Author made a strong,polemical argument against the centrality of the figure of the author in literary study.It states that the intentions of the author are meaningless to the interpretation of a text.Michel Foucault,the famous French philosopher and the historian in the ideology field,in his What is An Author,shows the idea of the author,as a timeless,irreducible category,is,rather,a "function" of discourse which has changed in the course of history.The author means quite different in their ideas.But what the author really is?展开更多
Afro-American writer Alice Walker is one of most influential black women writers in the American literary world of the twentieth century.She has long time focused on the living conditions of the black,especially black...Afro-American writer Alice Walker is one of most influential black women writers in the American literary world of the twentieth century.She has long time focused on the living conditions of the black,especially black females under the ethnic context.Through Foucault’s power theory,the operating mechanism of power the in The Color Purple can be clearly elaborated.On the one hand,patriarchal disciplinary power sets numerous restrictions on individuals for the purpose of producing docile bodies.On the oth⁃er hand,the disciplined individuals take the body as a site of protest against disciplinary power,so as to construct their own dis⁃course,free themselves from the marginalized living status and realize the promise of reconciliation between sexes and races.展开更多
文摘Roland Barthes,the outstanding thinker as well as the semiologist of France,has left great contribution to us human beings.His The Death of the Author made a strong,polemical argument against the centrality of the figure of the author in literary study.It states that the intentions of the author are meaningless to the interpretation of a text.Michel Foucault,the famous French philosopher and the historian in the ideology field,in his What is An Author,shows the idea of the author,as a timeless,irreducible category,is,rather,a "function" of discourse which has changed in the course of history.The author means quite different in their ideas.But what the author really is?
文摘Afro-American writer Alice Walker is one of most influential black women writers in the American literary world of the twentieth century.She has long time focused on the living conditions of the black,especially black females under the ethnic context.Through Foucault’s power theory,the operating mechanism of power the in The Color Purple can be clearly elaborated.On the one hand,patriarchal disciplinary power sets numerous restrictions on individuals for the purpose of producing docile bodies.On the oth⁃er hand,the disciplined individuals take the body as a site of protest against disciplinary power,so as to construct their own dis⁃course,free themselves from the marginalized living status and realize the promise of reconciliation between sexes and races.
