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, 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 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, 1979.
- Sollers, écrivain, Paris: Seuil, 1979.
- 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
- Articles, papers, chapters
- "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 about Roland 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
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