Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes

Informationen zum Autor Neil Badmington is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. Zusammenfassung This collection, which brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the field, considers how the posthumously published journals of Roland Barthes affect our understanding of his work. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction – Deliberations: the journals of Roland Barthes 1. Writing mourning 2. Barthes deliberates: Pascal, Ignatius and the question of the diary 3. Diary-writing and the return of Gide in Barthes’s ‘Vita Nova’ 4. Barthes and Antonioni in China: the muffling of criticism 5. Roland Barthes’s Travels in China: writing a diary of dissidence within dissidence? 6. Bored with Barthes: ennui in China 7. Punctive grace: reading religion in Barthes’ Mourning Diary 8. Mourning Diary: love’s work

Product details

• Authors: Neil (University of Cardiff Badmington
• Assisted by: Neil Badmington (Editor), Badmington Neil (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2017
• EAN: 9781138631120
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63112-0
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; France, Diaries, letters & journals, English, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Diaries, letters and journals, History of Western philosophy