The text-invitation: a meeting with Roland Barthes

• Grant number: 18/05857-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: May 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Claudia Consuelo Amigo Pino
• Grantee: Katerina Blasques Kaspar
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to discuss Roland Barthes's use of figures of speech, as related to food and commensality. The analysis references texts where he refers directly to food (as in the seminair How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces and the preface of Physiology of Taste, from Brillat-Savarin), as well as his essays, in which he uses many food-related metaphors in his method, such as S/Z and "Qu'est-ce que la critique?". Conceptually, we will treat his literature as an invitation to "eat together"; for this reason, it will be necessary to reference texts related to reception theory, especially those by Luiz Costa Lima and Umberto Eco. (AU)