Abstract
Roland Barthes is regarded as one of the most influential theorists of the “text” in the second half of the 20th century. He not only developed a series of theoretical reflections on the concept of the “text,” but also transformed these reflections into a distinctive writing practice. Within this practice, biography as a literary genre became a central site for the refinement and testing of his text theory. Biographical writing and text theory can be understood as symbiotic in Roland Barthes's work. On the one hand, he employs text theory to rethink and reconfigure the fundamental generic assumptions of biography; on the other hand, through his own “biographical” writing, he opened up new possibilities for the concept of the “text” itself.
Keywords
biography, biographeme, text, family album
First Page
86
Last Page
97
Recommended Citation
Wu, Qiong. 2026. "Roland Barthes's Biographical Writing." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 46, (1): pp.86-97. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol46/iss1/9
