Notation After “The Reality Effect”: Remaking Reference With Roland Barthes And Sheila Heti

Authors

Rachel Sagner Buurma, Swarthmore CollegeFollow
L. Heffernan

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2014

Published In

Representations

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.

Comments

This work is freely available courtesy of University of California Press.

Recommended Citation

Rachel Sagner Buurma and L. Heffernan. (2014). "Notation After “The Reality Effect”: Remaking Reference With Roland Barthes And Sheila Heti". Representations. Volume 125, Issue 1. 80-102.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-english-lit/172