Or: Every Picture Tells a Story (Continued)
Related material —
The New York Times online today, in a book review —
"What if . . . Barthes was murdered? . . . in order to
procure a document that Barthes possessed . . . .
That document explained that, beyond the six
functions of language proposed by the Russian
linguist Roman Jakobson, there was a seventh
secret one: an occult kind of language-use
guaranteed to persuade, a 'magic' power of
control over a listener."
See also Barthes in this journal.
"Down in the Jungle Room" — Marc Cohn