| Abstract [eng] |
This dissertation offers an analysis of the notion and meaning of the body and different kind of aspects of corporeality in French structuralist theories, more specifically, in the later works (dating from the ‘70s) by two immensely influential authors of the second half of the twentieth century, Roland Barthes (1915–1980) and Algirdas Julius Greimas (1917–1992), whose legacy had an profound impact on literary studies. Despite differences in the approach applied by Barthes and Greimas in their research of the body within the systems of, respectively, semiology and postsemiology and semiotics, the focus of their intellectual endeavours remained the same – the problem of meaning. By analyzing the reading theory and the notion of the text developed by Barthes as well as the modalization of being and esthesis presented by Greimas the thesis made an attempt to reveal phenomenological foundations of Greimas and Barthes in the description of meaning which expands the structural description of meaning. The body and various aspects of corporeality as the object of investigation presuppose a phenomenological perspective of analysis while the theoretical apparatus of the authors under discussion, a semiotic one. The thesis combines both approaches; thus the concept of the body is analysed on the basis of the positions of body-enunciation and body-enunciator. |
