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'''Roland Gérard Barthes''' (1915 – 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.
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'''Roland Gérard Barthes''' (1915–1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. His 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.
  
 
==Life and work==
 
==Life and work==
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[[File:Barthes_1953.JPG|thumb|290px|'''Roland Barthes''' at the time of the publication of ''Le Degré zéro de l’écriture'', photographed by Robert David, 1953]]
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[[Image:Barthes_1953.JPG|thumb|258px|Barthes at the time of the publication of ''Le Degré zéro de l’écriture'', photographed by Robert David, 1953.]]
 
Roland Barthes was born in Cherbough, Manche. His father died in a naval battle in Barthes' infancy, forcing his mother to move to Bayonne. Barthes spent his early childhood there, until they moved to Paris in 1924 where he attended the Lycée Montagne, followed by studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand from 1930-34. Life became difficult for them when Barthes mother had an illegitimate child, for their grandparents refused to give her financial aid, and so she took work as a bookbinder. Barthes was able to continue his studies at the Sorbonne, in classical letters, grammar and philology (receiving a degrees in 1939 and 1943 respectively), and Greek tragedy.
 
Roland Barthes was born in Cherbough, Manche. His father died in a naval battle in Barthes' infancy, forcing his mother to move to Bayonne. Barthes spent his early childhood there, until they moved to Paris in 1924 where he attended the Lycée Montagne, followed by studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand from 1930-34. Life became difficult for them when Barthes mother had an illegitimate child, for their grandparents refused to give her financial aid, and so she took work as a bookbinder. Barthes was able to continue his studies at the Sorbonne, in classical letters, grammar and philology (receiving a degrees in 1939 and 1943 respectively), and Greek tragedy.
  
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Barthes' doctoral studies were hampered by ill health. He suffered from tuberculosis, spending time in sanatoriums in the years 1934-5 and 1942-46, during the occupation. He continued to read and write, established a theatrical group, and in spite of his condition, managed to teach at lycées in Biarritz (1939), Bayonne (1939-40), Paris (1942-46), at the French Institute, [[Bucharest]], Romania (1948-49), University of Alexandria, Egypt (1949-50), and Direction Générale des Affaires Culturelles (1950-52). His teaching career expanded: research positions with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (1952-59), a directorship of studies at the École Practique des Hautes Étude (1960-76), a teacher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1967-68), and a chair of literary semiology at Collège de France (1976 to 1980) [http://www.egs.edu/library/roland-barthes/biography/].
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Barthes' doctoral studies were hampered by ill health. He suffered from tuberculosis, spending time in sanatoriums in the years 1934-5 and 1942-46, during the occupation. He continued to read and write, established a theatrical group, and in spite of his condition, managed to teach at lycées in Biarritz (1939), Bayonne (1939-40), Paris (1942-46), at the French Institute, [[Bucharest]], Romania (1948-49), University of Alexandria, Egypt (1949-50), and Direction Générale des Affaires Culturelles (1950-52). His teaching career expanded: research positions with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (1952-59), a directorship of studies at the École Practique des Hautes Étude (1960-76), a teacher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1967-68), and a chair of literary semiology at Collège de France (1976 to 1980). [http://www.egs.edu/library/roland-barthes/biography/]
  
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Barthes died in 1980 at the age of 64 from injuries suffered after being struck by an automobile. Several posthumous collections of his writings have been published, including ''A Barthes Reader'' (1982), edited by his friend and admirer [[Susan Sontag]], and ''Incidents'' (1987) [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/54319/Roland-Barthes].
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Barthes died in 1980 at the age of 64 from injuries suffered after being struck by an automobile. Several posthumous collections of his writings have been published, including ''A Barthes Reader'' (1982), edited by his friend and admirer [[Susan Sontag]], and ''Incidents'' (1987). [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/54319/Roland-Barthes]
  
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==Literature==
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==Bibliography==
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[[File:Cover barthes mythologies.JPG|thumb|200px|cover of ''Mythologies'']]
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[[File:Cover barthes mythologies.JPG|thumb|200px|Cover of ''Mythologies'']]
 
[[File:Cover of mythologies.jpg|thumb|200px|''Mythologies'', 1957. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mythologies_1957.pdf|Download]].]]
 
[[File:Cover of mythologies.jpg|thumb|200px|''Mythologies'', 1957. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mythologies_1957.pdf|Download]].]]
 
[[Image:Cover_mythologies.jpeg|thumb|200px|''Mythologies'', 1972. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mythologies_EN_1972.pdf|Download]].]]
 
[[Image:Cover_mythologies.jpeg|thumb|200px|''Mythologies'', 1972. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mythologies_EN_1972.pdf|Download]].]]
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[[Image:Cover-Mitologias-ES.jpg|thumb|200px|''MITOLOGÍAS'',1980. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mitologias_1980.pdf|Download]].]]
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[[Image:Cover-Mitologias-ES.jpg|thumb|200px|''Mitologías'', 1980. (in Spanish) [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mitologias_1980.pdf|Download]].]]
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[[Image:Cover barthes s z.JPG|thumb|200px|''S/Z'', 1974. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_S_Z_EN_1974.pdf|Download]]. ]]
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[[File:Cover barthes criticism.JPG|thumb|200px|Cover of ''Criticism and Truth'']]
 
[[Image:Cover barthes image music text.JPG|thumb|200px|''Image-Music-Text'', 1977. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Image-Music-Text.pdf|Download]].]]
 
[[Image:Cover barthes image music text.JPG|thumb|200px|''Image-Music-Text'', 1977. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Image-Music-Text.pdf|Download]].]]
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[[Image:Cover barthes s z.JPG|thumb|200px|''S/Z'', 1974. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_S_Z_EN_1974.pdf|Download]]. ]]
 
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[[File:Cover barthes criticism.JPG|thumb|200px|cover of ''Criticism and Truth'']]
 
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[[Image:Cover barthes the rustle of language.JPG|thumb|200px|''The rustle of language'', 1989. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_The_Rustle_of_Language_1989.pdf|Download]].]]
 
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[[Image:Cover_Camera_Lucida_EN.jpg|thumb|200px|''Camera lucida: Reflections on Photography'', 1982.[[Media:Barthes_Roland_Camera_Lucida_Reflections_on_Photography.pdf|Download]].]]
 
 
[[Image:Cover_of_elemets_of_semiology.jpg|thumb|200px|''Elements of Semiology'', 1977. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Elements_of_Semiology_1977.pdf|Download]].]]
 
[[Image:Cover_of_elemets_of_semiology.jpg|thumb|200px|''Elements of Semiology'', 1977. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Elements_of_Semiology_1977.pdf|Download]].]]
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[[Image:Cover_Camera_Lucida_EN.jpg|thumb|200px|''Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography'', 1982. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Camera_Lucida_Reflections_on_Photography.pdf|Download]].]]
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[[Image:Cover barthes the rustle of language.JPG|thumb|200px|''The Rustle of Language'', 1989. [[Media:Barthes_Roland_The_Rustle_of_Language_1989.pdf|Download]].]]
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(in French unless noted)
  
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==Books by Roland Barthes==
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===By Barthes===
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;Books before 1980
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; Monographs
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* [http://www.ae-lib.org.ua/texts/barthes__le_degre_zero_de_lecriture__fr.htm ''Le degré zéro de l'écriture''], Paris: Seuil, 1953.
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* [http://www.ae-lib.org.ua/texts/barthes__le_degre_zero_de_lecriture__fr.htm ''Le degré zéro de l'écriture''], Paris: Seuil, 1953; 1972.
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** ''Writing Degree Zero'', trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977 (in English).
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** ''Writing Degree Zero'', trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. (in English)
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** ''Romanul scriiturii. Antologie'', trans. Adriana Babeţi and Delia Şepeţean-Vasiliu, Bucureşti: Univers Publishing House, 1987 (in Romanian).
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** ''Romanul scriiturii. Antologie'', trans. Adriana Babeţi and Delia Şepeţean-Vasiliu, Bucharest: Univers Publishing House, 1987. (in Romanian)
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** ''Gradul Zero al scriiturii. Noi eseuri critice'', trans. Alex. Cistelcan, Cartier, 2006 (in Romanian).
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** ''Gradul Zero al scriiturii. Noi eseuri critice'', trans. Alex. Cistelcan, Cartier, 2006. (in Romanian)
 
* [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mythologies_1957.pdf|''Mythologies'']], Paris: Seuil, 1957.
 
* [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mythologies_1957.pdf|''Mythologies'']], Paris: Seuil, 1957.
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mythologies_EN_1972.pdf|''Mythologies'']], trans. Annette Lavers, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972 (in English).
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mythologies_EN_1972.pdf|''Mythologies'']], trans. Annette Lavers, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972. (in English)
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mitologias_1980.pdf|''MITOLOGÍAS'']], trans. Hector Schmucler, Madrid: Siglo XXI editores, s. a., 1980 (in Spanish).
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Mitologias_1980.pdf|''Mitologías'']], trans. Hector Schmucler, Madrid: Siglo XXI editores, s. a., 1980 .(in Spanish)
 
** ''Mythen des Alltags. Vollständige Ausgabetrans'', trans. Horst Brühmann, Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2010  (in German).
 
** ''Mythen des Alltags. Vollständige Ausgabetrans'', trans. Horst Brühmann, Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2010  (in German).
 
** ''Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation'', trans. Richard Howard and Annette Lavers, New York: Hill and Wang; Tra edition, 2012 (in English) [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/04/ronald-barthes-mythologies.html review].
 
** ''Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation'', trans. Richard Howard and Annette Lavers, New York: Hill and Wang; Tra edition, 2012 (in English) [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/04/ronald-barthes-mythologies.html review].
 
* ''Sur Racine'', Paris: Seuil, 1963.
 
* ''Sur Racine'', Paris: Seuil, 1963.
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* [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/comm_0588-8018_1964_num_4_1_1029 ''Éléments de Sémiologie''], first appeared in ''Communications'', No. 4, 1964:91-135. reprint: ''Eléments de sémiologie'', Paris: Denoël/Gonthier, 1965 ([http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/barthes.htm excepts]).
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* [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/comm_0588-8018_1964_num_4_1_1029 "Éléments de Sémiologie"], ''Communications'' 4, 1964, pp 91-135; repr. as ''Eléments de sémiologie'', Paris: Denoël/Gonthier, 1965. [http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/barthes.htm Excepts].
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Elementos_de_semiologia_1971.pdf|''Elementos de semiologia'']], trans. Izidoro Blikstein, São Paulo: Editôra Cultrix, 1971 (in Portuguese).
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Elementos_de_semiologia_1971.pdf|''Elementos de semiologia'']], trans. Izidoro Blikstein, São Paulo: Editôra Cultrix, 1971. (in Portuguese)
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Elements_of_Semiology_1977.pdf|''Elements of Semiology'']], trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977 (in English).
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Elements_of_Semiology_1977.pdf|''Elements of Semiology'']], trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. (in English)
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* ''Critique et Vérité'', Paris: Seuil, 1966.
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* ''Critique et vérité'', Paris: Seuil, 1966.
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** ''Criticism and truth'', trans. Katrine Pilcher Keuneman, The Athlone Press, 1987, London: Continuum, 2004 (in English).
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** ''Criticism and Truth'', trans. Katrine Pilcher Keuneman, The Athlone Press, 1987; London: Continuum, 2004. (in English)
 
* ''S/Z'', Paris: Seuil, 1970.
 
* ''S/Z'', Paris: Seuil, 1970.
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_S_Z_EN_1974.pdf|''S/Z'']], trans. Richard Miller, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974 (in English).
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_S_Z_EN_1974.pdf|''S/Z'']], trans. Richard Miller, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974. (in English)
 
* ''L' Empire des Signes'', Paris: Skira, Paris, 1970.
 
* ''L' Empire des Signes'', Paris: Skira, Paris, 1970.
 
** [[Media:Barthes_roland_Empire_of_Signs_1983.pdf|''Empire of Signs'']], trans. Richard Howard, New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
 
** [[Media:Barthes_roland_Empire_of_Signs_1983.pdf|''Empire of Signs'']], trans. Richard Howard, New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
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** ''Imperiul Semnelor'', trans. Alex. Cistelecan, Cartier, 2007 (in Romanian)
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** ''Imperiul Semnelor'', trans. Alex. Cistelecan, Cartier, 2007. (in Romanian)
 
* ''Sade/ Fourier/ Loyola'', Paris: Seuil, 1971.
 
* ''Sade/ Fourier/ Loyola'', Paris: Seuil, 1971.
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Sade_Fourier_Loyola_EN_1976.pdf|''Sade, Fourier, Loyola'']], trans. Richard Miller, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974, Universty of California Press, 1989 (in English).
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Sade_Fourier_Loyola_EN_1976.pdf|''Sade, Fourier, Loyola'']], trans. Richard Miller, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974, University of California Press, 1989. (in English)
 
* ''Le Plaisir du texte'', Paris: Seuil, 1973.
 
* ''Le Plaisir du texte'', Paris: Seuil, 1973.
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_The_Pleasure_of_the_Text_EN_1975.pdf|''The Pleasure of the Text'']], trans. Richard Miller, New York: Hill and Wang, 1975 (in English) [http://emberilmu.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/roland-barthes-the-pleasure-of-the-text.pdf another version].
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_The_Pleasure_of_the_Text_EN_1975.pdf|''The Pleasure of the Text'']], trans. Richard Miller, New York: Hill and Wang, 1975. (in English) [http://emberilmu.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/roland-barthes-the-pleasure-of-the-text.pdf]
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** ''Plăcerea textului. Roland Barthes despre Roland Barthes. Lecţia'', trans. Marian Papahagi and Sorina Dănăilă, Cartier, 2006 (in Romanian).
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** ''Plăcerea textului. Roland Barthes despre Roland Barthes. Lecţia'', trans. Marian Papahagi and Sorina Dănăilă, Cartier, 2006. (in Romanian)
 
* ''Essais Critiques'', Paris: Seuil, 1973.
 
* ''Essais Critiques'', Paris: Seuil, 1973.
 
* ''Alors la Chine ?'', Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1975.
 
* ''Alors la Chine ?'', Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1975.
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8574 ''Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes''] [''Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes''], 1975/1977
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* ''Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes'', Paris: Seuil, 1975.
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=413 ''Image-Music-Text''], essays, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8574 ''Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes''], trans. Richard Howard, University of California Press, with New York: Hill and Wang, 1977, 188 pp. (in English)
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* [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Fragments_d%27un_discours_amoureux_1977.pdf|''Fragments d’un discours amoureux'']], Paris: Seuil, 1977
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=413 ''Image-Music-Text''], ed. & trans. Stephen Heath, London: Fontana, 1977.
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** [[Media:Roland_Barthes_Roland_a_lover_s_discourse_1978.pdf|''A Lover's Discourse: Fragments'']], trans. Richard Howard, New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
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* [[Media:Barthes_Roland_Fragments_d%27un_discours_amoureux_1977.pdf|''Fragments d’un discours amoureux'']], Paris: Seuil, 1977.
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** [[Media:Roland_Barthes_Roland_a_lover_s_discourse_1978.pdf|''A Lover's Discourse: Fragments'']], trans. Richard Howard, New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
 
** ''Fragmente dintr-un discurs îndrăgostit'', trans. Sorina Dănăilă, Cartier, 2007 (in Romanian).
 
** ''Fragmente dintr-un discurs îndrăgostit'', trans. Sorina Dănăilă, Cartier, 2007 (in Romanian).
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* ''Leçon'', Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1978.
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* ''Leçon'', Paris: Seuil, 1978.
 
* ''Sollers, écrivain'', Paris: Seuil, 1979.
 
* ''Sollers, écrivain'', Paris: Seuil, 1979.
 
* ''Nouveaux essais critiques'', Paris: Seuil, 1980.
 
* ''Nouveaux essais critiques'', Paris: Seuil, 1980.
 
* ''Essais critiques IV: Le Bruissement de la langue'', Paris: Seuil, 1980.
 
* ''Essais critiques IV: Le Bruissement de la langue'', Paris: Seuil, 1980.
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''La chambre claire : note sur la photographie''] [''Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography''], 1980-
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* [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''La chambre claire: note sur la photographie''], Paris: Gallimard/Seuil/Cahiers du Cinéma, 1980, 194 pp.
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography''], trans. Richard Howard, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982, 119 pp.
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''A câmara clara: Nota sobre a fotografia''], trans. Júlio Castañon Guimarães, 1984. (in Portuguese)
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''Ο φωτεινός θάλαμος: Σημειώσεις για τη φωτογραφία''], trans. Γιάννης Κρητικός, 1984. (in Greek)
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''Világoskamra: Jegyzetek a fotográfiáról''], trans. Ferch Magda, 1985. (in Hungarian)
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''La cámara lúcida: Nota sobre la fotografía''], trans. Joaquim Sala-Sanahuja, 1990.  (in Spanish)
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''La camera chiara: Nota sulla fotografia''], trans. Renzo Guidieri, 1992. (in Italian)
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''Světlá komora: Vysvětlivka k fotografii''], trans. Miroslav Petříček jr., 1994. (in Czech)
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''Camera Lucida: Комментарий_к_фотографии''], trans. Михаил Рыклин, 1997. (in Russian)
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6868 ''Światło obrazu: Uwagi o fotografii''], trans. Jacek Trznadel, 2008. (in Polish)
  
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; Books published posthumously
 
* ''Essais critiques'', Paris: Seuil, 1981.
 
* ''Essais critiques'', Paris: Seuil, 1981.
 
* ''Le Grain de la voix: Entretiens 1962-80'', 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.
 
* ''L'obvie et l'obtus: essais critiques III'', Paris: Seuil, 1982.
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** ''The Responsabily of Form. Critical essays on Music, Art and representation'', trans. Richard Howard, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1985 (in English).
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** ''The Responsabily of Form. Critical Essays on Music, Art and Representation'', trans. Richard Howard, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985. (in English)
 
** [http://www.ucientifica.com/biblioteca/biblioteca/documentos/web_cientifica/humanidades/obvio-obtuso.pdf ''Lo obvio y lo obtuso: imágenes, gestos, voces''], Barcelona: Ediciones Paidos Iberica, S.A., 1986 (in Spanish).
 
** [http://www.ucientifica.com/biblioteca/biblioteca/documentos/web_cientifica/humanidades/obvio-obtuso.pdf ''Lo obvio y lo obtuso: imágenes, gestos, voces''], Barcelona: Ediciones Paidos Iberica, S.A., 1986 (in Spanish).
 
* ''Le Bruissment De La Langue'', Paris: Seuil, 1986.
 
* ''Le Bruissment De La Langue'', Paris: Seuil, 1986.
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_The_Rustle_of_Language_1989.pdf|''The Rustle of Language'']], trans. Richard Howard, University of California Press, 1989 (in English).
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_The_Rustle_of_Language_1989.pdf|''The Rustle of Language'']], trans. Richard Howard, University of California Press, 1989. (in English)
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* ''Incidents'', Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1987 (published posthumously by François Wahl).
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* ''Incidents'', Paris: Seuil, 1987.
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** [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5v19n9z1&brand=ucpress ''Incidents''], University of California Press, 1992 (in English).
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** [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5v19n9z1&brand=ucpress ''Incidents''], University of California Press, 1992. (in English)
 
** ''Incidente'', trans. Iolanda Vasiliu, Cartier, 2007 (in Romanian).
 
** ''Incidente'', trans. Iolanda Vasiliu, Cartier, 2007 (in Romanian).
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* ''Œuvres complètes'' [''Complete works''], Editions du Seuil: Paris,
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* ''Œuvres complètes'', Paris: Seuil.
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tome I (1942-1965), 1993, tome II (1966-1973), 1994 and tome III (1974-1980), 1995.
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** ''Tome I (1942-1965)'', 1993.
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* ''Journal de deuil [1977-1979]'', Paris: Éditions du Seuil/Imec, 2009 (in French) [http://philosophie.ac-creteil.fr/IMG/pdf/Barthes_Journal.pdf review].
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** ''Tome II (1966-1973)'', 1994.
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** ''Jurnal de doliu [26 octombrie 1977 - 15 septembrie 1979]'', trans. Em. Galaicu-Păun, Cartier, 2009 (in Romanian).
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** ''Tome III (1974-1980)'', 1995.
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* ''Journal de deuil (1977-1979)'', Paris: Seuil/Imec, 2009. [http://philosophie.ac-creteil.fr/IMG/pdf/Barthes_Journal.pdf review].
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** ''Jurnal de doliu (26 octombrie 1977 - 15 septembrie 1979)'', trans. Em. Galaicu-Păun, Cartier, 2009. (in Romanian)
  
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; Book chapters, articles and Lecturer by Roland Barthes
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; Selected Book chapters, Articles and Lectures
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* [[Media:Barthes_Roland_le_message_photographique_1961.pdf|"Le message photographique"]], ''Communications'', vol. 1, no.1, 1961:127-138.
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* [[Media:Barthes_Roland_le_message_photographique_1961.pdf|"Le message photographique"]], ''Communications'', 1:1 (1961), pp 127-138.
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** [[Media:Barthes_Photographic_Message.pdf|"The Photographic Message"]], trans. Stephen Heath, chap. in [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=413 ''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).
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** [[Media:Barthes_Photographic_Message.pdf|"The Photographic Message"]], trans. Stephen Heath, chap. in [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=413 ''Image-Music-Text''], New York: Hill and Wang, 1977; repr. in ''A Barthes Reader'', ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill and Wang, 1982, pp 194-210. (in English)
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*[[Media:Barthes_Roland_rhetorique_de_l_image_1964.pdf|"Rhétorique de l'image"]], ''Communications'', vol. 4, no. 4, 1964:40-51.
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* [[Media:Barthes_Roland_rhetorique_de_l_image_1964.pdf|"Rhétorique de l'image"]], ''Communications'' 4:4 (1964), pp 40-51.
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_rhetoric_of_the_image.pdf|"Rhetoric of the Image"]], in Alan Trachtenberg (ed.), ''Classic Essays on Photography'', New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980: 269-285.
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** [[Media:Barthes_Roland_rhetoric_of_the_image.pdf|"Rhetoric of the Image"]], in ''Classic Essays on Photography'', ed. Alan Trachtenberg, New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980, pp 269-285. (in English)
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* [http://perf.tamu.edu/musc402/files/2012/02/Barthes-The-Third-Meaning.pdf "The Third Meaning: Research Notes on Several Eisenstein Stills"], 1970, chap. in [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=413 ''Image-Music-Text''], essays, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977:44-68,  reprint in: ''The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation'', Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985 [http://thethirdmeaning.blogspot.ro/2007/10/roland-barthes-third-meaning.html online].
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* [http://perf.tamu.edu/musc402/files/2012/02/Barthes-The-Third-Meaning.pdf "The Third Meaning: Research Notes on Several Eisenstein Stills"], 1970; repr. as chap. in [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=413 ''Image-Music-Text''], New York: Hill and Wang, 1977, pp 44-68; repr. in ''The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation'', University of California Press, 1985. (in English) [http://thethirdmeaning.blogspot.ro/2007/10/roland-barthes-third-meaning.html]
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* "Le Neutre" ([http://roundtable.kein.org/sites/newtable.kein.org/files/Roland%20Barthes_The%20Neutral.pdf "The neutral: Lecture course at the College de France"]), 1978, [http://www.ubu.com/sound/barthes.html audio].
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* "Le Neutre" ([http://roundtable.kein.org/sites/newtable.kein.org/files/Roland%20Barthes_The%20Neutral.pdf "The neutral: Lecture course at the College de France"]), 1978. [http://www.ubu.com/sound/barthes.html Audio recording].
  
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==Publications on Roland Barthes==
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===On Barthes===
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; Articles, papers, chapters
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* [[Susan Sontag]], "Remembering Barthes", in [[Media:Susan_Sontag_Under_the_Sign_of_Saturn_1981.pdf|''Under the Sign of Saturn'']],  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.
 
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* Alec McHoul and David Wills, "The Late(r) Barthes", ''Boundary 2'' (Fall 85/Winter 86): 261-78.
 
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* [[Margaret Iversen]], "What Is A Photograph", Art History, vol.17, no.3, Sept. 1994: 450–463.
 
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* Kenneth S. Calhoon, [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~gerscan/faculty/profiles/kcalhoon/pdf/personal_effects.pdf "Personal Effects: Rilke, Barthes, and the Matter of Photography"], The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
 
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* Meir Wigoder, [http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/methods/wigoder.pdf "History Begins at Home. Photography and Memory in the Writings of Siegfried Kracauer and Roland Barthes"], ''History and Memory'', 13, 1, 2001.
 
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* [[Jacques Derrida]], "Roland Barthes. November 12, 1915 - March 26, 1980", chap. in: Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (eds.), ''Jacques Derrida, The Work of Mourning'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001: 31-67.
 
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* Tim Dant & Graeme Gilloch, "Pictures of the Past: Benjamin and Barthes on photography and history", [http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/33411/1/PHOTO2k_eprint.pdf on-line version], published in ''European Journal of Cultural Studies'', Vol. 5 (1), 2002: 5-25.
 
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* Margaret Olin, [http://doczine.com/bigdata/1/1367022171_48285af1b7/barthes-olin.pdf "Touching Photographs: Roland Barthes's "Mistaken" Identification"], ''Representations'', No. 80 (Autumn, 2002): 99-118.
 
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* Adam Lowenstein, "The Surrealism of the Photographic Image: Bazin, Barthes, and the Digital Sweet Hereafter", Cinema Journal, 46, Number 3, Spring 2007, pp. 54-82 [http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/burt/%20%20%20%20%20%20Kiaorostami%20Shakespeare%20Amy%20Scott-Douglas/46.3lowenstein.pdf]
 
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* Elizabeth Howie, [http://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:b699d41f-845e-4ce5-b73e-623922cdb58f "Photography's Courtly Desires: Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and the Photographic Beloved"], PhD thesis, Chapel Hill, 2007.
 
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* Ricardo García Murillo, [http://revistatales.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nro2_12.pdf "Entre el estructuralismo y su post: modelos de significación en Roland Barthes"], ''Revista de la Asociación de Alumnos de Postgrado de Filosofía TALES'', no. 2, 2009: 119- 128 (in Spanish).
 
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* Sebastian Boţic, [http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/images/articole/botic63122009.pdf "Semnalul fotografic. O analiză în marginea teoriei semiotice în fotografie"] in ''Idei in Dialog'', no. 12 (63) DECEMBRIE 2009 (in Romanian).
 
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; Books on Barthes
 
 
* Louis-Jean Calvet, ''Roland Barthes, un regard politique sur le signe'', Paris: Payot, 1973.
 
* Louis-Jean Calvet, ''Roland Barthes, un regard politique sur le signe'', Paris: Payot, 1973.
 
* Colloque de Cérisy, ''Prétexte: Roland Barthes'', Paris: Union générale d'éditions, 1978.
 
* Colloque de Cérisy, ''Prétexte: Roland Barthes'', Paris: Union générale d'éditions, 1978.
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* George R. Wasserman, ''Roland Barthes'', Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981.
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* George R. Wasserman, ''Roland Barthes'', Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981. (in English)
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* Annette Lavers, [[Media:Lavers_Annette_Roland_Barthes_Structuralism_and_After_1982.pdf|''Roland Barthes: Structuralism and After'']], London: Methuen & Co., 1982.
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* Annette Lavers, [[Media:Lavers_Annette_Roland_Barthes_Structuralism_and_After_1982.pdf|''Roland Barthes: Structuralism and After'']], London: Methuen, 1982. (in English)
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* [[Susan Sontag]], "Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes", introduction to Roland Barthes, ''A Barthes Reader'', ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
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* Jonathan Culler, ''Barthes'' (American Title: Roland Barthes). London: Fontana Modern Masters; New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Revised and expanded edition, ''Roland Barthes: A Very Short Introduction'', OUP, 2001. (in English)
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* [[Jonathan Culler]], ''Barthes'' (American Title: Roland Barthes). London: Fontana Modern Masters; New York: Oxford University Press, 1983 (Revised and expanded edition, Roland Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, Oxford, 2001).
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* Réda Bensmaïa, ''The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text'', trans. Pat Fedkiew, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. (in English)
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* Réda Bensmaïa, ''The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text'', trans. Pat Fedkiew, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
 
 
* Louis-Jean Calvet, ''Roland Barthes 1915-1980'', Paris: Flammarion, 1990.
 
* Louis-Jean Calvet, ''Roland Barthes 1915-1980'', Paris: Flammarion, 1990.
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** Loius-Jean Calvet, ''Roland Barthes: A Biography'', trans. Sarah Wykes, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994 (in English).
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** ''Roland Barthes: A Biography'', trans. Sarah Wykes, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. (in English)
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* Jean-Michel Rabaté (ed.), ''Writing the Image After Roland Barthes'', University on Pensylvania Press, 1997.
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* Jean-Michel Rabaté (ed.), ''Writing the Image After Roland Barthes'', University on Pensylvania Press, 1997. (in English)
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* Allen Graham, [http://www.lightforcenetwork.com/sites/default/files/Roland%20Barthes%20(Routledge%20Critical%20Thinkers)%20-%20Graham%20Allen.pdf ''Roland Barthes''], London: Routledge, 2003.
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* Allen Graham, [http://www.lightforcenetwork.com/sites/default/files/Roland%20Barthes%20(Routledge%20Critical%20Thinkers)%20-%20Graham%20Allen.pdf ''Roland Barthes''], London: Routledge, 2003. (in English)
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* Jean-Claude Milner, ''El paso filosófico de Roland Barthes'', Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 2004.
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* Jean-Claude Milner, ''El paso filosófico de Roland Barthes'', Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 2004. (in Spanish)
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* Eric Marty, ''Roland Barthes, le métier d'écrire'', Paris: Seuil, 2006.
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* Eric Marty, ''Roland Barthes, le métier d'écrire'', Paris: Seuil, 2006. (in English)
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* Margaret Iversen, ''Beyond Pleasure. Freud, Lacan, Barthes'', The Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13 978-0-271-02971-9, 2007.
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* Margaret Iversen, ''Beyond Pleasure. Freud, Lacan, Barthes'', The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. (in English)
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* [[Geoffrey Batchen]], ''Photography degree zero: reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera lucida'', The MIT Press, 2009.
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* Geoffrey Batchen, ''Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida'', The MIT Press, 2009. (in English)
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* Lucy O’Meara, ''Roland Barthes at the Collège de France'', Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012 [http://www.h-france.net/vol13reviews/vol13no113mortimer.pdf review].
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* Lucy O’Meara, ''Roland Barthes at the Collège de France'', Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. (in English). [http://www.h-france.net/vol13reviews/vol13no113mortimer.pdf Review].
 
* [http://media.routledgeweb.com/pdf/9780415472579/9780415472579.pdf More].
 
* [http://media.routledgeweb.com/pdf/9780415472579/9780415472579.pdf More].
  
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==External Links==
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; Book chapters, Papers, Articles
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* [http://www.egs.edu/library/roland-barthes/bibliography/ BARTHES - BIBLIOGRAPHY]
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* Susan Sontag, "Remembering Barthes", in [[Media:Susan_Sontag_Under_the_Sign_of_Saturn_1981.pdf|''Under the Sign of Saturn'']], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980. (in English)
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* [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/54319/Roland-Barthes Barthes on Britannica Online]
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* Susan Sontag, "Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes", in ''A Barthes Reader'', ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
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* [http://www.ubu.com/sound/barthes.html Roland Barthes on Ubu.sound]
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* Alec McHoul, David Wills, "The Late(r) Barthes", ''Boundary 2'' (Fall 1985/Winter 1986), pp 261-78. (in English)
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes Barthes on Wikipedia]
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* Margaret Iversen, "What Is A Photograph", ''Art History'' 17:3 (September 1994), pp 450-463. (in English)
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* Kenneth S. Calhoon, [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~gerscan/faculty/profiles/kcalhoon/pdf/personal_effects.pdf "Personal Effects: Rilke, Barthes, and the Matter of Photography"], The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. (in English)
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* Meir Wigoder, [http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/methods/wigoder.pdf "History Begins at Home. Photography and Memory in the Writings of Siegfried Kracauer and Roland Barthes"], ''History and Memory'' 13:1 (2001). (in English)
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* Jacques Derrida, "Roland Barthes. November 12, 1915 - March 26, 1980", in ''Jacques Derrida, The Work of Mourning'', eds. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp 31-67. (in English)
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* Tim Dant, Graeme Gilloch, [http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/33411/1/PHOTO2k_eprint.pdf "Pictures of the Past: Benjamin and Barthes on photography and history"], in ''European Journal of Cultural Studies'', Vol. 5 (1), 2002, pp 5-25. (in English)
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* Margaret Olin, [http://doczine.com/bigdata/1/1367022171_48285af1b7/barthes-olin.pdf "Touching Photographs: Roland Barthes's 'Mistaken' Identification"], ''Representations'' 80 (Autumn 2002), pp 99-118. (in English)
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* Adam Lowenstein, [http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/burt/%20%20%20%20%20%20Kiaorostami%20Shakespeare%20Amy%20Scott-Douglas/46.3lowenstein.pdf "The Surrealism of the Photographic Image: Bazin, Barthes, and the Digital Sweet Hereafter"], ''Cinema Journal'' 46:3, Spring 2007, pp. 54-82. (in English)
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* Elizabeth Howie, [http://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:b699d41f-845e-4ce5-b73e-623922cdb58f "Photography's Courtly Desires: Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and the Photographic Beloved"], Chapel Hill, 2007. Ph.D. Dissertation. (in English)
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* Ricardo García Murillo, [http://revistatales.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nro2_12.pdf "Entre el estructuralismo y su post: modelos de significación en Roland Barthes"], ''Tales'' 2 (2009), pp 119-128 (in Spanish).
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* Sebastian Boţic, [http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/images/articole/botic63122009.pdf "Semnalul fotografic. O analiză în marginea teoriei semiotice în fotografie"], ''Idei in Dialog'' 12:63 (December 2009). (in Romanian)
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===Bibliographies===
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* [http://www.egs.edu/library/roland-barthes/bibliography/ At EGS]
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==External links==
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* [http://www.ubu.com/sound/barthes.html Barthes in Ubu Sound]
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* [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/54319/Roland-Barthes Barthes in Britannica Online]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes Barthes at Wikipedia]
 
* [http://groupeeac.free.fr/ot4/artis/anneforest/page3oeuvre.html L'oeuvre de Roland Barthes]
 
* [http://groupeeac.free.fr/ot4/artis/anneforest/page3oeuvre.html L'oeuvre de Roland Barthes]
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* [http://www.ae-lib.org.ua/_phil_XX.htm#barthes Barthes in French & Russsian]
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* [http://www.ae-lib.org.ua/_phil_XX.htm#barthes Barthes in French and Russian]

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Barthes photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1963.
Born November 12, 1915(1915-11-12)
Cherbourg, France
Died March 26, 1980(1980-03-26) (aged 64)
Paris, France

Roland Gérard Barthes (1915–1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. His 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.

Life and work

Barthes at the time of the publication of Le Degré zéro de l’écriture, photographed by Robert David, 1953.

Roland Barthes was born in Cherbough, Manche. His father died in a naval battle in Barthes' infancy, forcing his mother to move to Bayonne. Barthes spent his early childhood there, until they moved to Paris in 1924 where he attended the Lycée Montagne, followed by studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand from 1930-34. Life became difficult for them when Barthes mother had an illegitimate child, for their grandparents refused to give her financial aid, and so she took work as a bookbinder. Barthes was able to continue his studies at the Sorbonne, in classical letters, grammar and philology (receiving a degrees in 1939 and 1943 respectively), and Greek tragedy.

Barthes' doctoral studies were hampered by ill health. He suffered from tuberculosis, spending time in sanatoriums in the years 1934-5 and 1942-46, during the occupation. He continued to read and write, established a theatrical group, and in spite of his condition, managed to teach at lycées in Biarritz (1939), Bayonne (1939-40), Paris (1942-46), at the French Institute, Bucharest, Romania (1948-49), University of Alexandria, Egypt (1949-50), and Direction Générale des Affaires Culturelles (1950-52). His teaching career expanded: research positions with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (1952-59), a directorship of studies at the École Practique des Hautes Étude (1960-76), a teacher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1967-68), and a chair of literary semiology at Collège de France (1976 to 1980). [1]

Barthes died in 1980 at the age of 64 from injuries suffered after being struck by an automobile. Several posthumous collections of his writings have been published, including A Barthes Reader (1982), edited by his friend and admirer Susan Sontag, and Incidents (1987). [2]

Bibliography

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Mythologies, 1957. Download.
Mythologies, 1972. Download.
Mitologías, 1980. (in Spanish) Download.
S/Z, 1974. Download.
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Image-Music-Text, 1977. Download.
Elements of Semiology, 1977. Download.
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, 1982. Download.
The Rustle of Language, 1989. Download.

(in French unless noted)

By Barthes

Monographs
Books published posthumously
  • 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.
    • The Responsabily of Form. Critical Essays on Music, Art and Representation, trans. Richard Howard, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985. (in English)
    • Lo obvio y lo obtuso: imágenes, gestos, voces, Barcelona: Ediciones Paidos Iberica, S.A., 1986 (in Spanish).
  • Le Bruissment De La Langue, Paris: Seuil, 1986.
  • Incidents, Paris: Seuil, 1987.
    • Incidents, University of California Press, 1992. (in English)
    • Incidente, trans. Iolanda Vasiliu, Cartier, 2007 (in Romanian).
  • Œuvres complètes, Paris: Seuil.
    • Tome I (1942-1965), 1993.
    • Tome II (1966-1973), 1994.
    • Tome III (1974-1980), 1995.
  • Journal de deuil (1977-1979), Paris: Seuil/Imec, 2009. review.
    • Jurnal de doliu (26 octombrie 1977 - 15 septembrie 1979), trans. Em. Galaicu-Păun, Cartier, 2009. (in Romanian)
Selected Book chapters, Articles and Lectures

On Barthes

Books
  • Louis-Jean Calvet, Roland Barthes, un regard politique sur le signe, Paris: Payot, 1973.
  • Colloque de Cérisy, Prétexte: Roland Barthes, Paris: Union générale d'éditions, 1978.
  • George R. Wasserman, Roland Barthes, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981. (in English)
  • Annette Lavers, Roland Barthes: Structuralism and After, London: Methuen, 1982. (in English)
  • Jonathan Culler, Barthes (American Title: Roland Barthes). London: Fontana Modern Masters; New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Revised and expanded edition, Roland Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2001. (in English)
  • Réda Bensmaïa, The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text, trans. Pat Fedkiew, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. (in English)
  • Louis-Jean Calvet, Roland Barthes 1915-1980, Paris: Flammarion, 1990.
    • Roland Barthes: A Biography, trans. Sarah Wykes, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. (in English)
  • Jean-Michel Rabaté (ed.), Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, University on Pensylvania Press, 1997. (in English)
  • Allen Graham, Roland Barthes, London: Routledge, 2003. (in English)
  • Jean-Claude Milner, El paso filosófico de Roland Barthes, Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 2004. (in Spanish)
  • Eric Marty, Roland Barthes, le métier d'écrire, Paris: Seuil, 2006. (in English)
  • Margaret Iversen, Beyond Pleasure. Freud, Lacan, Barthes, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. (in English)
  • Geoffrey Batchen, Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, The MIT Press, 2009. (in English)
  • Lucy O’Meara, Roland Barthes at the Collège de France, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. (in English). Review.
  • More.
Book chapters, Papers, Articles

Bibliographies

External links

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