Question: Who wrote more books that became films, Tracy Chevalier or Roland Barthes?
Sentence (from "Effect of reality"): In the absence of any signified, Barthes argues, the textual signifiers for "real" objects had for their actual signifieds only the concept of realism itself; further, Barthes suggested that the origins of this textual device came through the development of an "aesthetic finality of language" present in the use of the rhetorical device of ecphrasis in "Alexandrian neo-rhetoric of the second century" ("The Reality Effect" in Barthes 1989).
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