Dear list,
I'm very sorry I have been silent of late and I apologise
that I break my silence with a request. I'm frantically
trying to finish my thesis and have had no time to think
beyond those terms of reference...let alone actually go to
the cinema.
Anyway, can anyone help me find the source of a quotation
used by Werner Schroeter at the beginning of his film
"Love's Debris"?
Barthes is quoted thus:
"What is this body that is singing the Lied? What is it
within my own body that listens and sings? It is everything
that resounds within me, frightening me or awakening my
desire."
It is close to something he writes in "The Grain of the
Voice" but that is not the source for the above quotation.
I hope someone out there can give me a lied (oops, I mean
lead! sorry!!).
p.s. if anyone out there would like to discuss Barthes
notion of the "grain" in relation to film, we might perhaps
get a thread going? Is it possible to think an equivalent of
a 'pheno-text' and a 'geno-text' for the cinema, as Barthes
transposes Kristeva's terms into the corresponding notions
of the 'pheno-song' and 'geno-song'?
Thanks in advance,
Michelle Langford
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