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 Barthes’s 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. Barthes’s Hedonism Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) Part II: Legacies and Afterlives 9. Point Counterpoint: Derrida’s “The Deaths of Roland Barthes” Brian O’Keeffe (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. O’Hara (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 O’Keeffe (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

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.

The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure. In this way, the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to lacunae in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work under examination. The unique structure of the volumes allows the term “understanding” to describe an introductory knowledge of a field and a figure for advanced students and scholars new to the subject, while at the same time describing the evolving “understanding” scholars in a field gain with the publication of a new body of work by leading experts. This multi-level understanding emerges from a three-part division of each volume. The first part conceptualizes the volume’s key figure by offering close readings of their central philosophical texts. The second section on aesthetics resembles a more traditional edited collection by bringing together new research by diverse international scholars aimed at mapping relationships between the thought of a key philosophical figure and the literary work of a variety of modernist texts. The final section of each volume is an extended glossary of the philosopher’s key terms. In a departure from conventional glossaries, however, the entries are mini-essays in themselves, allowing a real engagement with the many, sometimes contradictory, ways the figure has applied the terms. Each definition has its own expert contributor.