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- 1. ROLAND BARTHES THEORY OF HIS ENIGMA CODES Barthes said “texts my be ‘open’ or ‘closed’.
- 2. BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE- Roland Barthes was born on the date of the 12th November 1915 and later tragically died at the age of 64 on the 25th March 1980. He was a French literary theorist, critic, philosopher and semiotician (the study of cultural signs and symbols). He explored in depth a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools around the while.
- 3. His codes theory Roland Barthes describes a text as: “a galaxy of signifiers, not a structure, not a structure of signified; it has no beginning; it is reversible; we gain access to it by several entrances, none of which can be authoritatively declared to be the main one; the codes it mobilizes extend as far as the eye can read, they are indeterminable… the systems of meaning can take over this absolutely plural text, but their number is never closed, based as it is on the infinity of language… “s/z-1974 translation)
- 4. Roland Barthes and what he meant by this… the text is like a tangled ball of threads Once unraveled, we encounter an absolute wide range of potential meanings. The thread needs to unraveled You cab continue by unraveling the narrative from a different angle and create an entirely different meaning
- 5. The five codes. Linguist Roland Barthes narrowed the action of a text Five Codes which are woven into any narrative The hermeneutic code (her) The enigma/proairetic code (act) The symbolic code (sym) The cultural code (ref) The semantic code (sem)