Writing the image after Roland Barthes / edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949-

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Series:

New cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barthes, Roland.

Photography--France--Philosophy.

Photography.

Barthes, Roland--Criticism and interpretation.

Photographic criticism--France.

Photographic criticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Philosophy.

France.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 285 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1997]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture.

Contents:

pt. 1. Reflections on photography: Barthes's discretion / Victor Burgin. "What has occurred only once" : Barthes's winter garden, Boltanski's archives of the dead / Marjorie Perloff. The filter of culture and the culture of death : how Barthes and Boltanski play the mythologies of the photograph / Nancy M. Shawcross. Barthes and Bazin : the ontology of the image / Colin MacCabe. Roland Barthes's obtuse, sharp meaning and the responsibilities of commentary / Derek Attridge. Photographeme : mythologizing in Camera lucida / Jolanta Wawrzycka. Narrative liaisons : Roland Barthes and the dangers of the photo-essay / Carol Shloss. Circulating images : notes on the photographic exchange / Liliane Weissberg. Roland Barthes, or The woman without a shadow / Diana Knight. The descent of Orpheus : on reading Barthes and Proust / Beryl Schlossman

pt. 2. Seeing language, seeing culture: The imaginary museum of Jules Michelet / Steven Ungar. Barthes with Marx / Philippe Roger. Beyond metalanguage : bathmology / Pierre Force. Who is the real one? / Antoine Compagnon. The art of being sparse, porous, scattered / Marjorie Welish. Genetic criticism in the wake of Barthes / Daniel Ferrer. Roland Barthes abroad. Dalia Kandiyoti. Un-scriptible / Arkady Plotnitsky

Conclusion: a false account of talking with Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes in Philadelphia / Bob Perelman.

Notes:

The chapters collected here were originally presented as papers during the conference 'After Roland Barthes, ' which took place at the University of Pennsylvania in April 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Writing the image after Roland Barthes.

ISBN:

9780812200232

0812200233

OCLC:

605118846

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