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 Barthes

• Mythologies, Paris: Seuil, 1957.
• Sur Racine, Paris: Seuil, 1963.
• S/Z, Paris: Seuil, 1970.
• Sade/ Fourier/ Loyola, Paris: Seuil, 1971.
• Le Plaisir du texte, Paris: Seuil, 1973.
• Essais Critiques, Paris: Seuil, 1973.
• Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes [Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes], 1975/1977
• Image-Music-Text, essays, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977
• Fragments d’un discours amoureux, Paris: Seuil, 1977
  • A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, trans. Richard Howard, New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
• Sollers, écrivain, Paris: Seuil, 1979 (in English).
• Nouveaux essais critiques, Paris: Seuil, 1980.
• Essais critiques IV: Le Bruissement de la langue, Paris: Seuil, 1980.
• La chambre claire : note sur la photographie [Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography], 1980-
• Essais critiques, Paris: Seuil, 1981.
• Le Grain de la voix: Entretiens 1962-80, Paris: Seuil, 1981.
• L'obvie et l'obtus: essais critiques III, Paris: Seuil, 1982.
  • Lo obvio y lo obtuso: imágenes, gestos, voces, Barcelona: Ediciones Paidos Iberica, S.A., 1986 (in Spanish).
• Incidents, University of California Press, 1992 (in English).
• Œuvres complètes [Complete works], Editions du Seuil: Paris, 1993

Book chapters and Articles by Barthes

• "Le message photographique", Communications, vol. 1, no.1, 1961:127-138.
  • "The Photographic Message", trans. Stephen Heath, chap. in Image-Music-Text, essays, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977 (Reprint in: A Barthes Reader, ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill and Wang, 1982: 194-210).
• "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 on Barthes

• Colloque de Cérisy, Prétexte: Roland Barthes, Paris: Union générale d'éditions, 1978.
• Susan Sontag, "Remembering Barthes", in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.
• George R. Wasserman, Roland Barthes, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981.
• Annette Lavers, Roland Barthes: Structuralism and After, London: Methuen & Co., 1982.
• Susan Sontag, "Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes", introduction to Roland Barthes, A Barthes Reader, ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
• Alec McHoul and David Wills, "The Late(r) Barthes", Boundary 2 (Fall 85/Winter 86): 261-78.
• 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
• Jean-Claude Milner, El paso filosófico de Roland Barthes, Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 2004
• More.

External Links

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