Word: idiolect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ideas" are not developed to the point where they deserve this name; they are only alluded to in passing, in an often impenetrable idiolect. As we read, Barthes tells us that "reading is the permanent hemorrhage by which structure--patiently and usefully described by Structural Analysis--collapses, opens, is lost." His writing on reading is not even Barthes' beloved skidding-of-words effect but rather an effect of neglect, which frustrates reading, which hastens reading, which promotes erasure: bad faith. Read slowly, if you can. Linger over each "gustative sensation" and remember that "the submission of the gustative sensation...
PARADOXICALLY, IT IS the very insistence of Barthes' manner that fails to satisfy us. His writing continually points to itself, to its own idiolect, through devices which by now reek of affectation...
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