Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes

ISBN-13: 9780367109356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 162 str.

Neil Badmington

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Neil Badmington is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University.