Notation after the reality effect : Remaking reference with roland barthes and sheila heti

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Abstract

In "The Reality Effect," Roland Barthes reveals notation's ideological function within the realist novel; a decade later in Preparation of the Novel, Barthes reconsiders notation as the practice by which the writer provisionally makes literary meaning. Barthes's revision of his claims for the reality effect helps us see how an emerging genre-the novel of commission-pulls referential, preparatory materials into the novel in order to reimagine the sociality and institutionality of the writing process. © 2014 The Regents of the University of California.

Publication Title

Representations

Volume

125

Issue

1

First Page

80

Last Page

102

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1525/rep.2014.125.1.80

ISSN

07346018

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