Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.

Literature

Books by Roland Barthes

• Mythologies, Seuil: Paris, 1957
• S/Z, Seuil: Paris, 1970
• Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, 1975/1977
• Image Music Text, essays, 1977
• Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, 1980-
• Incidents, University of California Press, 1992 (in English).
• Œuvres complètes [Complete works], Editions du Seuil: Paris, 1993

Articles, papers, chapters

• "Rhétorique de l'image", Communications, vol. 4, no. 4, 1964:40-51.
  • "Rhetoric of the Image", in Alan Trachtenberg (ed.), Classic Essays on Photography, New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980: 269-285.

Books about Roland Barthes

• Susan Sontag, "Remembering Barthes", in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980
• Susan Sontag, "Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes", introduction to Roland Barthes, A Barthes Reader, ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
• Réda Bensmaïa, The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text, trans. Pat Fedkiew, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987
• Allen Graham, Roland Barthes, London: Routledge, 2003

External Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes