Roland Barthes (1915-80) was one of the leading post-structuralist authors of his day as well as making many important contributions to semiotics. These three volumes provide a complete overview of his achievement. They provide an unparalleled critical assessment of his work in semiotics, structuralism and post-structuralism. The development and contradictions in Barthes' thought are addressed and elucidated. His role in 'the cultural turn' is pinpointed. What emerges most powerfully, is a picture of a culturally engaged critic of contemporary life, who was prepared to make radical innovations in theory and method in order to illuminate his quest for truth. These volumes provide a high water mark in Barthes' studies and are indispensable for any serious scholar interested in the sociology of culture and the cultural turn.
Mike Gane is Professor of Sociology at University of Loughborough
PART ONE: BARTHES AND OTHER THINKERS On Representation and Essence - Nicholas Huckle Barthes and Heidegger Barthes and Sartre - Michel Rybalka The Paradoxical Effects of Macluhanisme - Gary Genosko Cazeneuve, Baudrillard and Barthes Reading/Writing Between the Lines - Gail Weiss Benjamin, Fourier, Barthes - Michael Hollington Barthes meets Benjamin? - John Thobo-Carlsen A Relating of their Views on the Conjunction Between Language and Literature Barthes via Proust - Steven Ungar Circular Memories Traitement de faveur (Barthes lecteur de Sade) - Philippe Roger Myth and Politics in the Works of Sorel and Barthes - Michael Tager Demystification - Michael Kelly A Dialogue between Barthes and Lefebvre Signification and Simulation - Mary McGee Wood Barthes's Response to Turing PART TWO: METHOD/RHETORIC/WRITING The Place of Rhetoric in Roland Barthes - Patrick O'Donovan Roland Barthes's Narratology - Frank Whitehead Rhetoric, Theory, Surface - Andy Stafford Roland Barthes and the Limits of Structuralism - Paul de Man Barthes, Orpheus ... - Michael Holland Barthes's Body - Leslie Hill PART THREE: EARLY WRITINGS - MICHELET, WRITING DEGREE ZERO Barthes Hot and Cold - Rick Rylance Early Work Barthes and Michelet - Andy Stafford Biography and History PART FOUR: SEMIOLOGY/MYTHOLOGIES/MODERNITY To Read the World - Peter Fitting Barthes Mythologies 30 Years Later Barthes - Michael Moriarty Ideology, Culture, Subjectivity Laundering the Text - Sheri Hoem Barthes's Criti-Myth-Oetics From Event to Memory Site - Steven Ungar Thoughts on Rereading Mythologies Modern Mass to Postmodern Popular in Barthess Mythologies - Marianne de Koven Roland Barthes - William S Haney II Modernity Within History PART FIVE: JAPAN Barthes's Imaginary Voyages - Lynne A Higgins The Plural Void - Trinh T Minh-ha Barthes and Asia The Soul and the Sense - Darko Suvin Meditations on Roland Barthes on Japan Exoticism Then and Now - Dalia Kandiyoti The Travels of Pierre Loti and Roland Barthes in Japan Japan as Western Text - Rolf J Goebel roland Barthes, Richard Gordon Smith, and Lafcadio Hearn Barthes and Orientalism - Diana Knight PART SIX: S/Z S/Z - Donald Rice and Peter Schofer Rhetoric and Open Reading S/Z - Deborah G Lambert Barthes' Castration Camp and the Discourse of Polarity Roland Barthes S/Z from a Musical Point of View - Patrick McCreless Sign, Seme and the Psychological Character - Andrew J Scheiber Some Thoughts on Roland Barthes S/Z and the Realistic Novel Castrati, Balzac, and Barthes S/Z - Yvonne Noble A Map of Terms - Raymond J Wilson III The Cultural Code and Ethnic Psychology in Roland Barthes S/Z PART SEVEN: LATER WORK: PLEASURE OF THE TEXT/A LOVERS DISCOURSE Difference - Robert Miklitsch Roland Barthes's Pleasure of the Text, Text of Pleasure A Hedonist Apostasy - Jose G Merquior The Later Barthes The Non-Homogeneous I - Colleen Donnelly Fragmentation, Desire, and Pleasure in Roland Barthes's A Lovers Discourse Discourses of Desire - Laurie J Churchill On Ovids Amores and Barthes's Fragments dun Discours Amoureux Loving Writing - Armine K Mortimer Fragments d'un Discours Amoureux We Always Fail - Paul Smith Barthes' Last Writings The Late(r) Barthes - Alec McHoul and David Wills Constituting Fragmenting Subjects PART EIGHT: THEMES (I) THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR The Death of the Author (as Producer) - John Stopford The Death of the Author - Peter Lamarque An Analytical Autopsy Feminist Literary Criticism and the Author - Cheryl Walker The Revenge of the Author - Colin MacCabe Roland Barthes's Resurrection of the Author and Redemption of Biography - J C Carlier PART NINE: THEMES (II) ART CINEMA/THEATRE Roland Barthes and the Nouvelle Critique - David Funt Artist - Work - Audience - Lucian Krukowski Musings on Barthes and Tolstoy The Insistent Fringe - Vivian Sobchack Moving Images and Historical Consciousness At the Readers Discretion - James S Williams On Barthes and Cinema Constructing a Radical Popular Theatre - Andy Stafford Roland Barthes, Brecht and Theatre populaire Performing Degree Zero - Timothy Scheie Barthes, Body, Theatre PART TEN: THEMES (III) PHOTOGRAPHY/CAMERA LUCIDA/LA CHAMBRE CLAIRE Roland Barthes on the Aesthetics of Photography - Dale Jacquette Roland Barthes and the Spectre of Photography - Ralph Sarkonak Barthes Explores Photography 'As a Wound' - Corinna A Tsakiridou Barthes Real Mother - Eilene Hoft-March The Legacy of La Chambre Claire The Subject of Enuncication in Roland Barthes's La Chambre Claire - Johnnie Gratton PART ELEVEN: THEMES (IV) GENDER/SEXUALITY/IDENTITY Roland Barthes - Lawrence D Kritzman The Discourse of Desire and the Question of Gender Barthes and Feminity - Claire Oboussier A Synaesthetic Writing The Secretive Body - Pierre Saint-Amand Roland Barthes's Gay Erotics From 'incident' to 'texte' - Murray Pratt Homosexuality and Autobiography in Barthes's Late Writing Roland Barthes - Daniel Dervin The Text as Self; The Self as Text
