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propitiate
Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

A propitiatory victim sacrificed so that the world will be bright

—p.179 Literature According to Minou Drouet (172) by Roland Barthes
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dithyrambic

in a contagion of dithyrambic images

on poetry

—p.178 Literature According to Minou Drouet (172) by Roland Barthes
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dialectic

its beauty, its truth proceed from a profound dialectic between the life and death of language, between density of the word and the ennui of syntax

on modern poetry

—p.178 Literature According to Minou Drouet (172) by Roland Barthes
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fulguration

it is this weapon alone which can strip the poetic metaphor of its artifice, reveal it as the fulguration of a truth, won over a continuous nausea of language

—p.178 Literature According to Minou Drouet (172) by Roland Barthes
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antiphrasis

Minou Drouet's texts in this sense appear as the antiphrasis of all poetry insofar as they flee that solitary weapon of writers, literality

—p.178 Literature According to Minou Drouet (172) by Roland Barthes
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