In this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman interprets Roland Barthes's experiments as efforts to reposition the human subject with respect to language and to time in order to let the subject escape from the language of a particular culture and the present time.
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Preface; Introduction; Part One; 1. I Refuse to Inherit 2. Certain Old and Lovely Things; Part Two; 3. To Silence the Flutes 4. Texts of Pleasure, Texts of Bliss 5. Identity Questions; Part Three; 6. Make-up, Masks, Cameras and Chromosomes 7. Magic, Not Art I 8. Magic, Not Art II; Coda; Bibliography; Index