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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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
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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.
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Explores and illuminates Roland Barthes' profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism.
Extremely wide-ranging and in-depth exploration of Barthes's influence on the literature and study of modernism
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.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781501393518
Publisert
2024-02-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304