An inquiry into the ethics of amatory writing in Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s

• Main Author: Liang, Lavinia Wanyu
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63422
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Addressing the Lover’s Discourse as a potentially self-conscious, solipsistic, self-enclosed, and thus, self-legitimised system of speaking, this thesis sets out to envision a nascent ethics informing the writing of the Lover’s Discourse – writing in (as a lover) and about (in non-amorous writing as...