ROLAND BARTHES’ CONNOTATIVE CODE: A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR READING JAMES JOYCE’S “TWO GALLANTS”

Roland Barthes as a fervent proponent of semiology believes that semiology is a branch of a comprehensive linguistics: it is the study of how language articulates the world. Semiotic codes, the paths of this articulation, accordingly underlie his attention. Barthes in a structural analysis of Balzac’s “Sarrasine” in S/Z expounds five types and functions of these codes. The sixth story of James Joyce’s Dubliners, “Two Gallants,” because of it coded polyphony is negotiable on the level one of these codes, the connotative code. It seems that the story strategically conveys some thematic information to the reader by deciphering its connotative codes. Accordingly, this study with having recourse to Roland Barthes’ specified connotative code in S/Z makes an attempt to expatiate the structural patterns that bear an inconspicuous semantic implication of James Joyce’s “Two Gallants.”