مجلة الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية
Volume 19, Numéro 1, Pages 825-848
2026-06-11

The Joys Of Reading And The Pains Of Text A Modern Critical View Of Roland Barthes' Thought A Critical Aesthetic Approach

Authors : Azzouz Lahcene .

Abstract

On the horizon of modern critical studies, accompanied by an explosion of knowledge in communication sciences, anthropology, epistemology, and knowledge, many approaches and concepts have reshaped the critical textual vision in a new light. These were produced by multiple readings of literary texts and dictated by the nature of frequent epistemological changes, while the critical view of the text remained for a long time based on a partial, grammatical, or linguistic view, or perhaps dealt with the text from outside based on historical, social, or psychological data Contemporary critical studies have thus opened up new horizons for dealing with creative texts. The aim of this research is to reproduce the text’s evolving meaning and challenge a single interpretation, to liberate the text from the author’s sole control, to shape the text through a continuous dynamic process, and to transform it from a static entity into a living cognitive experience that expands with the flexibility of the reader’s perception. It also seeks to involve the reader in the creative process. Roland Barthes’s methodology is a pioneering critical and philosophical approach grounded in semiotics (the study of signs) and the deconstruction of cultural, literary, and media discourses. His approach aims to uncover the deeper meanings and ideologies that shape society by analyzing texts, images, and everyday objects as semiotic systems through the study of signs, symbols, discourse, and suggestion, and ultimately cultural patterns.. KEYWORDS: Text, Roland Barthes, Interpretation, Transcendent Reader, Semiotics, Signification, Creativity, Breach, Third Meaning, Dialogism

Keywords

Text ; Roland Barthes ; Interpretation ; Transcendent Reader ; Semiotics ; Signification ; Creativity ; Breach ; Third Meaning ; Dialogism