Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes
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This is a genuinely post modern autobiography, and innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre's The Words.

S/Z : An Essay

Roland Barthes
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Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."

The Pleasure of the Text

Roland Barthes
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What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of rea ...

The Responsibility of Forms

Roland Barthes
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These late essays of Roland Barthes are concerned with the visible and the audible, and here the preoccupations are particularly intense and rewarding in part because he was of two minds about the very possibility of attaching to art and to music a w ...

The Semiotic Challenge

Roland Barthes
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Most of these essays were written between 1963 and 1973 and constitute either the elements of the semiotic discipline or the analysis of texts-ranging from the Bible to advertising-in order to determine the site of possible meanings in narratives. Ba ...

Writing Degree Zero

Roland Barthes
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In his first book, French critic Roland Barthes defines the complex nature of writing, as well as the social, historical, political, and personal forces responsible for the formal changes in writing from the classical period to recent times.

Specters of the Atlantic : Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History

Ian Baucom
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Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000

Jean Baudrillard
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Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere is this objective (non-)critique which results so clearly played out as in the Cool Memories series. ...

Simulations

Jean Baudrillard
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"Simulations" never existed as a book before it was " translated" into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of "Simulations," and most provocative because it ...

Julia Kristeva and Literary Theory

Megan Becker-Leckrone
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Julia Kristeva has sparked considerable debate among feminist, political and psychoanalytic thinkers, securing her status as one of the most formidable figures in twentieth-century critical theory. However, her precise relevance to the study of liter ...