Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes.
The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to Barthes's death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980). The second part focuses both on the posthumously published material and the legacies of his work after his death in 1980. This later work has attracted attention, for example, in conjunction with notions of the neutral, gay writing, and critiques of everyday life.
The third part is devoted to some of the critical vocabulary of Barthes in both the work he published during his lifetime, and that which was published posthumously.
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[ The] book succeeds in conveying Barthess awareness and engagement with thinkers and writers of his time as well as his dynamic curiosity for future lines of thought, both of which continue to make his corpus, like modernism itself, so tantalizingly resistant to the unrelenting tenacity of academic labelling. * French Studies * Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a further testament to the enduring insistence of the writing and thought of Roland Barthes. Mapping Barthes' brilliance across the inevitably multiple and heterogeneous constellation of his interventions, exploring and extending his legacies, and, in superbly Barthesian style, offering punctual insights into the "conceptual inventory' generated by his writing, the volume succeeds in making of the reading of Barthes' work a paradoxical experience of newness and return. The volume will be required reading for any who seek to understand Barthes' vital contribution to his time and ours. * Patrick ffrench, Professor of French, Kings College London, UK * An extremely stimulating collection by a transatlantic group of distinguished contributors, this volume combines very rich essays on many aspects of Barthes work, from the earliest to the latest, with useful summaries of key ideas. Any student of Roland Barthes will find things of interest here. * Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Cornell University, USA * Reading Barthes means thinking about modernity in all its forms. Providing a panoramic account of Barthess engagement with literature, aesthetics, popular culture, and philosophy, the essays in this collection illuminate our understanding of Barthess multi-faceted thought and show how his insights continue to resonate and to inform inquiry across disciplinary boundaries. -- Lucy OMeara, University of Kent, UK * Modern Language Review * This book is a necessary inclusion on the shelf of any Barthes scholar as it fully explores the vast constellation of his thought through nuanced and comprehensive studies and applications of his work. -- Christopher OHara, University of St Andrews, UK * Forum for Modern Language Studies *
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Explores and illuminates Roland Barthes' profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Zahi Zalloua
(Whitman College, USA)
Part I: Mapping Barthes
1 Roland Barthess Myth of Photography
Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
2. Barthes and the Search for Rigor
Thomas Pavel (University of Chicago, USA)
3. Barthes and the French Classics
Michael Moriarty (University of Cambridge, UK)
4. The Pleasure of Paradigm: Sade, Fourier, Loyola
Rudolphus Teeuwen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
5. Understanding Barthes, Understanding Proust
Thomas Baldwin (University of Kent, UK)
6. Take Two: Barthes and Film in the Age of Mythologies
Steven Ungar (University of Iowa, USA)
7. Barthes, Bazin, and Écriture
Dudley Andrew (Yale University, USA)
8. Barthess Hedonism
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA)
Part II: Legacies and Afterlives
9. Point Counterpoint: Derridas The Deaths of Roland Barthes
Brian OKeeffe (Barnard College, USA
10. Objects of Desire: Chosisme after OOO
Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)
11. Orpheus Turning: The Reader to Come in Camera Lucida
Daniel T. OHara (Temple University, USA)
12. No Wish to Understand nor to Grasp: Opacity in the Work of Roland
Barthes and Édouard Glissant
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
13. Roland Barthes and Don DeLillo on Living Together/Apart
Herman Rappaport (Wake Forest University, USA)
14. Barthes: Visual Culture and Homosexual Sociabilities
Magali Nachtergael (University of Paris 13, France)
Part III: Glossary
15. Author
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
16. Codes
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
17. Haiku
Brian OKeeffe (Barnard College, USA)
18. Jouissance
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
19. The Neutral
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
20. Readerly/Writerly
Warren Motte (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
21. Sign
Dinda L. Gorlée (University of Bergen, Norway)
22. Semiology
Dinda L. Gorlée (University of Bergen, Norway)
23. Structuralism
Dinda L. Gorlée (University of Bergen, Norway)
24. Studium/Punctum
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
25. Work/Text
Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston, Victoria, USA. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symploke, editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange. He has written, edited, or co-edited twenty-five books including the Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (2019).
Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College, USA, and Editor of The Comparatist. He is the author of five books, including iek on Race: Toward an Anti- Racist Future (2020), Theorys Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017). He has edited volumes and special journal issues on globalization, literary theory, ethical criticism, and trauma studies.
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