ABSTRACT
In this chapter we will continue with our look at Barthes’s poststructuralist work, focusing now in particular on the theory of the text and intertextuality. Barthes’s S/Z , first published in 1970, is a hugely important work not only in this phase of his career but in his career in general. It is in S/Z that Barthes’s theory of the text is fully articulated and, as a consequence, it is in this seminal work that the move from the structuralist analysis of narratives to a post-structuralist approach to narratives, and indeed to literary language in general, can be fully appreciated.
