The afterlives of Roland Barthes / Neil Badmington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badmington, Neil, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barthes, Roland.

Philologists--Biography.

Philologists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 155 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Summary:

"Roland Barthes - the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first book to revisit and reassess Barthes' thought in light of these posthumously published writings. Covering work such as Barthes' Mourning Diary, the notes for his projected Vita Nova and many writings yet to be translated into English, Neil Badmington reveals a very different Barthes of today than the figure familiar from the writings published in his lifetime." --back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: the afterlives of Roland Barthes

For Henriette's tomb: mourning with Mallarmé

Punctum Saliens: mourning, film, photography

The 'inkredible' Roland Barthes

Bored with Barthes: ennui in China

Hitchcock Hapax: realism revisited

Postscript: afterlives' afterlives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-150) and index.

ISBN:

1474297455

9781474297455

OCLC:

946462379