The Textual Practice of Amateur Games: Analysis of Roland Barthes' Rescue of the Legitimacy of the Writing Subject

Abstract

As the core way of Roland Barthes's late textual practice, "amateur" always rejects the ideological power of discourse construction, especially the power collapse within the language system, and tries to break the long-standing "intransitive" dilemma of writing through a non-utilitarian textual game. However, it also shifts the responsibility of narrative to social structures and releases a sense of lost historical disillusionment. Based on the textual manifestation of the concept of "amateur", including its position, goals and other specific forms of practice, and combined with the relevant research on modern symbolic media, this paper will explore Barthes's legitimacy argument against the writing subject, as well as the intimate connection between the text and the author in the practice of "amateur". In this way, we explore Barthes' argument for the legitimacy of the writing subject and the intimate connection between text and subject in "amateur" practice.