modern literature

 now provides the message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature. Irving Howe

is tyrannically centered on the author 'baudelaire's work is the failure of the man'.

The image of literature to be found in ordinary culture is tyrannically centred on the author, his person, his life, his tastes, his passions, while criticism still consist for the most part in saying that Baudelaire's work is the failure of Baudelaire the man, Van Gogh's his madness, Tchaikovsky's his vice. (Barthes 1977 : 143)

is an institution that absorbs all forms of writing into itself, like some kind of irresistible vacuum cleaner.

Similarly, for Barthes in Writing Degree Zero, modern Literature absorbs all forms of writing into itself, like some kind of irresistible vacuum cleaner. p.19

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modern literature