...to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origins, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred? As fiction, Oedipus was at least gcxxl for something: to make gcx>d novels, to tell good stories.8 The passage from ignorance to knowledge,...

...have traveled in my youth, I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps a catalogue of catalogues .... If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Books.—What good is a book that does not even carry us beyond all books? Yet, all that Hegel thought...

...line. If patrilinear narrative is robbed of the father, Roland Barthes's questions are understandable: Death of the father would deprive literature of many...story-telling always a way of searching for one's origin [...]? 5 If "the father" disappears from the text, it loses its author-ity. The "death of the father"...

..."The writer is someone who plays with his mother's body ... in order to glorify [and] embellish it";27 "Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't...Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?"28 Pace other contributing factors, one speculates on the extent to which the shape (perhaps...

...criticism since linearity in narrative has been recognized as patrilineal. As Roland Barthes commented, "If there is no longer a father, why tell stories?...story-telling always a way of searching for one's origin?"" For Barthes, once the father has disappeared from the text, it has no author-ity; the text is authorless,...

...Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller (New York: Hill and Wang, 1975), p. 47, and reads in full: "If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?...way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?" Without understanding...

...shapes its readers as politically gendered citizen-critics of the Republic of Letters. The Father The death of the Father would deprive literature of many...If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? — Roland Bardies, The Pleasure of the Text The monarch who reigned for so long is no more. He made...

...d'un meme coup l'Oedipe et le recit: on n'aime plus, on ne craint plus, on ne raconte plus.'87 The death of the Father would deprive literature of many...there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't any narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin,...

...achieve. He ended his book The Pleasure of the Text reflecting on the pervasiveness of this theme: 'Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't...way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?'90 It is through such...

...the Law. For Barthes, the conflict with the father is a key to creativity and (readerly) pleasure: Death of the Father would deprive literature of many...way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred? (Barthes 1975: 47) Salman...