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This vertiginous textual movement is resisted by readers who see no connection between the 'structuralist' Barthes and the wayward, dandified discourse of his later writings.

some form of 'creative' escape from the exigencies of high-powered theory

The dialogue-of-one becomes a kind of mocking catechism

It is evident, according to Barthes, that semiology must be such a meta-language

an otherwise inchoate mass of competing detail