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Barthes and Doxa
- Poetics Today
- Duke University Press
- Volume 23, Number 3, Fall 2002
- pp. 427-442
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This essay studies the uses and valuation of doxa in the work of Roland Barthes. Omnipresent and multiform, doxa appears there as a power informed by metaphors. The essay then focuses on the analysis of doxa in Barthes's S/Z, on its relation to the Flaubertian problematics of "received ideas," and on the impact of this problematics on literary story since the 1970s.