...Chih-Wei Chang This essay attempts to “bring out” Roland Barthes as an unnamable textual figure in the Taiwanese writer Chu T'ien-wen's Huangren shouji ( Notes of a Desolate Man ). Chu's “gay novel” is notorious for its narrator's seemingly inexhaustible references to a legion of writers, film...

...Lucy O'Meara This article is a comparative study of Theodor Adorno and Roland Barthes. These rarely compared thinkers share a profound affinity: their lifelong work on ideology critique proceeds from similar bases, and they each accord preeminence to aesthetic reflection. Their shared insistence...

...Maya Barzilai Following the 1988 translation of Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida into Hebrew, Ronit Matalon, an Israeli writer of Egyptian extraction, began interpolating Barthes into her writing, in part through unacknowledged quotations. This essay explores how Camera Lucida “traveled,” as a piece...

...' works we see an ambivalent relationship to father figures and a desire to challenge the Oedipal pact demanded by the symbolic by means of a literary act of defiance that involves a move beyond meaning and sense. Moving away from her earlier focus on poetry, Kristeva turns to Louis Aragon, Roland Barthes...

... in the practice and criticism of artists’ books; the study of comparative textual media; research in avant-garde poetry; and a line of criticism incorporating memory studies and book as well as paper history. Through an intermedial analysis of Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author,” I show that the material...

... on which reflection may do its work, sometimes productively. Parker argues for these broad claims, drawn from Taylor, by paying close attention to a substantial range of autobiographical writings, including texts by Wang Shih-Min (a seventeenth-century Qing dynasty court official), Roland Barthes...

... by Wang Shih-Min (a seventeenth-century Qing dynasty court official), Roland Barthes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Augustine, Wordsworth, and Edmund Gosse, as well as contemporary texts by Carolyn Steedman, Eric Liu, James McBride, Andrew Riemer, Ien Ang, Raimond Gaita, J. M. Coet­ zee, and Seamus Heaney...

... by Wang Shih-Min (a seventeenth-century Qing dynasty court official), Roland Barthes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Augustine, Wordsworth, and Edmund Gosse, as well as contemporary texts by Carolyn Steedman, Eric Liu, James McBride, Andrew Riemer, Ien Ang, Raimond Gaita, J. M. Coet­ zee, and Seamus Heaney...

... , 1969 . 173 – 209 . Print . ———. “Roland Barthes and the Limits of Structuralism.” Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers . Ed. Burt E.S. Newmark Kevin Warminski Andrzej . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1993 . 164 – 177 . Print...

... Jacqueline , translated by Goldhammer Arthur . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2007 . Camus Albert . “ Letter to Roland Barthes on the Plague .” In Selected Essays and Notebooks , translated by Thody Philip , 220 – 22 . London : Penguin , 1970 . Camus Albert...

..., Calhoon’s argument is a criti- cism of Roland Barthes’s “sovereign innocence” (156), the phrase Barthes coined “to describe his mother as he, in the wake of her death, rediscovered her in a photograph taken when she was only five,” and certainly not meant as the contradiction in terms that Calhoon...

... to the first epistolary novel, Juan de Segura’s Processo de cartas (1548) and to the first picaresque novel in Europe, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554). Following Roland Barthes’ deconstruction of “writing-effects,” Beebee shows how Manzanare’s Estilo y Formulario de cartas (1575) creates and solidifies the power...

... University Press, 1984 . Arnaldez, Roger. Grammaire et théologies chez Ibn Hazm de Cordoue . Paris: J. Vrin, 1956 . Assouline, Pierre. “Anthony Burgess.” Lire 153 ( 1988 ): 29 -38. Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida . Trans. Richard Howard. New York, 1981 . ____. Le Degré zéro de...

... to the first epistolary novel, Juan de Segura’s Processo de cartas (1548) and to the first picaresque novel in Europe, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554). Following Roland Barthes’ deconstruction of “writing-effects,” Beebee shows how Manzanare’s Estilo y Formulario de cartas (1575) creates and solidifies the power...

... and bureaucratic to creating a “character”—what Beebee calls “a theoretical ‘Ithat relied less on salutation and more on narration and petition (p. 23). In addition to Foucault, Beebee draws on the critical theories of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan...

... to the first epistolary novel, Juan de Segura’s Processo de cartas (1548) and to the first picaresque novel in Europe, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554). Following Roland Barthes’ deconstruction of “writing-effects,” Beebee shows how Manzanare’s Estilo y Formulario de cartas (1575) creates and solidifies the power...

... to the first epistolary novel, Juan de Segura’s Processo de cartas (1548) and to the first picaresque novel in Europe, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554). Following Roland Barthes’ deconstruction of “writing-effects,” Beebee shows how Manzanare’s Estilo y Formulario de cartas (1575) creates and solidifies the power...

... to the first epistolary novel, Juan de Segura’s Processo de cartas (1548) and to the first picaresque novel in Europe, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554). Following Roland Barthes’ deconstruction of “writing-effects,” Beebee shows how Manzanare’s Estilo y Formulario de cartas (1575) creates and solidifies the power...

...CHRISTOPHER BUSH University of Oregon 2005 Apter, Emily. “Global translatio: The `Invention' of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933.” Critical Inquiry 29 ( 2003 ): 253 -81. Barthes, Roland. Mythologies . Trans. Annette Levers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972 . Doumet...

...ANN PEARSON Allen, Graham. Intertextuality . London: Routledge, 2000 . Barthes, Roland. Image—Music—Text . Trans. Stephen Heath. London: Fontana, 1977 . Beck, John. “Reading Room: Erosion and Sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk.” Long and Whitehead 75 -88. Broich, Ulrich, ed...