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The Economy of Critical Attention: A Computational Analysis of Roland Barthes’s S/Z

Carmen Thong
Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 373–398.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-11366127
Published: 01 December 2024
... in a literary economy. When this accrual (or lack thereof) is quantified using computational methodologies, we can track where critical attention goes, how much of it, and why. As a proof of this concept, the article offers a quantitative analysis of critical attention in Roland Barthes’s S/Z . This work...
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Scholes, Barthes, and Structuralist Criticism 1

Dolores Palomo
Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (2): 193–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-36-2-193
Published: 01 June 1975
...Dolores Palomo Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 SCHOLES, BARTHES, AND STRUCTURALIST CRITICISM^ By DOLORESPALOMO The word “structuralism” floats around the periphery of American literary criticism, pausing momentarily...
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An example of Barthes’s formatting in S/Z and his labels for each part.

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Published: 01 December 2024
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Imprinting Mortality: Updike Reading Books

Kathleen Verduin
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 329–366.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2010-014
Published: 01 September 2010
... with books from childhood to early adulthood, focusing on his well-known interest in Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth and contextualizing that interest by reference to such contemporary publishing ventures as Anchor Books and the Harper Torchbooks. University of Washington 2010 Kathleen Verduin...
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Two Gardens: An Experiment in Calamity Form

Anahid Nersessian
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 307–329.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2153482
Published: 01 September 2013
... and present states of being in the dark. This nescient or ignorant epistemology has resonances with Roland Barthes’s writings on Zen as well as with Derek Parfit’s rejection of personal identity and, by extension, of self-interest as a catalyst for moral action. Thanks to Brian McGrath and Maureen...
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Chinese Postmodernist Fiction

Douwe Fokkema
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 141–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2007-029
Published: 01 March 2008
... the concept of postmodernism traveled from the United States to western Europe and Russia, with key roles for American critics such as John Barth, Leslie Fiedler, Ihab Hassan, and Matei Calinescu and, in Europe, writers such as Umberto Eco and the reception of Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov...
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In Saecula Saeculorum: On How Stories End

Christian Thorne
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 247–269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2865080
Published: 01 June 2015
... less common in modernist and experimental fiction. None of these claims survives scrutiny. A rereading of Roland Barthes’s S/Z (1970) should reveal the many shortcuts a narratologist has to take to celebrate open endings as liberating and should also disclose some of the ideological purposes to which...
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The Detail of Place and the Place of Detail

Shirley Lau Wong
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 187–205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10335733
Published: 01 June 2023
...Shirley Lau Wong Abstract Literary settings are often celebrated for richly representing the many details of a particular place. The close association between detail and setting stems from the realist presumption that detail constitutes what Roland Barthes calls an “index of . . . atmosphere...
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Structuring Coleridge's Ideas 1

J. A. Appleyard
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 206–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-32-2-206
Published: 01 June 1971
...J. A. Appleyard Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 1 J. Robert Barth, S. J. Coleridge and Christian Doctrine. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. xi + 215 pp. $7.50. STRUCTURING COLERIDGE’S IDEAS’ By J...
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The Enlightenment of the French Eye: The Limits of Intellectual History and the Master Narrative of Vision: Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought

David Carroll
Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (4): 487–509.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-56-4-487
Published: 01 December 1995
... carried on. For example, he quotes and seems to accept the legitimacy of Roland Barthes’s claim that the “disease” he suffered from was not antiocularcentrisrri but, on the con- trary, a kind of hyperocularism. Barthes admitted that an important part of his interest in language was focused on its...
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The Poetry of What Lies Close at Hand: Photography, Commodities, and Postromantic Discourses in Hardy and Stevens

Ronald Schleifer, Nancy M. West
Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 33–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-60-1-33
Published: 01 March 1999
... that make up the daguerreotype speak to the viewer as if by design, announcing their necessity as well as that of the invisible envelope that contains them. Dinesen’s observation anticipates Roland Barthes’s description of the photograph as a “prophecy in reverse,” which “fills the sight by force...
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Individuality and l'Esprit Français : On Gustave Lanson's Pedagogy

Mark Wolff
Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 239–258.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-62-3-239
Published: 01 September 2001
... in humanities computing. MLQ 62.3-03 Wolff 7/12/01 1:21 PM Page 239 Individuality and l’Esprit Français: On Gustave Lanson’s Pedagogy Mark Wolff oland Barthes once observed that the teaching of literary history R in the French school...
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Realism, Reception, 1968, and West Africa

Susan Z. Andrade
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 289–308.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1631406
Published: 01 September 2012
... structuralism to post- structuralism, especially in the work of Roland Barthes, where that shift is clearly visible. S/Z, Barthes’s creative and compelling act of reading that has had a lasting effect on interpretive protocols of narrative, was published in Barthes gave seminars on the topic...
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Art’s Undoing: In the Wake of a Radical Aestheticism

Eric Lindstrom
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 525–529.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3152864
Published: 01 December 2015
...Eric Lindstrom References Barthes Roland . 1985 . The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation , translated by Howard Richard . Berkeley : University of California Press . François Anne-Lise . 2008 . Open Secrets: The Literature...
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Sex, Nature, and Dualism in The Witches of Eastwick

Kathleen Verduin
Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (3): 293–315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-46-3-293
Published: 01 September 1985
... in Satanism.17 Drawing on Karl Barth, in a chapter where the theologian (whom Updike regularly evokes as a master) meditates on the properties of “Nothingness” (das Nichtige), Updike points to the Satanic impulses in the human heart: “Is not destructiveness within us as a positive lust, an active...
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The Detail, Revisited: Editorial Introduction

Jennifer Spitzer, Shirley Lau Wong
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 117–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10335724
Published: 01 June 2023
... sharpens our attention to the bigger picture, by acting as a trigger to consciousness.” Both Spitzer and Levine suggest that the detail is never static but always in motion, dynamic, and relational. And so, far from fixed objects—a barometer in a drawing room, as Barthes would have it, or a footprint...
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Everybody’s Autotheory

Max Cavitch
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 81–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9475043
Published: 01 March 2022
... works predating its coinage, such as Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva (1973), Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida (1980), and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Dialogue on Love (1999). 2 Neither a parody of theory nor a do-it-yourself theory...
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Our Obstinate Future

Ryan Vu, Sharif Youssef
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 119–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2864964
Published: 01 June 2015
... . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Badiou Alain . 2009 . Theory of the Subject , translated by Bosteels Bruno . London : Continuum . Barthes Roland . 1970 . S/Z . Paris : Seuil . Berlant Lauren . 2007 . “ On the Case .” Critical Inquiry 33 , no. 4 : 663...
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The Hard Work of Doing Nothing: Richard Savage's Parallel Lives

Hal Gladfelder
Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 445–472.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-64-4-445
Published: 01 December 2003
... can consume them. Author: Verb What, exactly, does an author do? The question may be unanswerable; it may even, according to certain definitions, be unaskable. If an author is defined as the phantasmal signified of a text (Roland Barthes), or a pure function of discourse (Michel Foucault...
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The Tragic Moment in Athalie

Erica Harth
Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 382–395.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-33-4-382
Published: 01 December 1972
... Barthes has remarked, with complete justification, “la division est la structure fondamentale de l’univers tragique,” and his description of the binary structure of Racine’s dramatic world is equally accurate: “La division racinienne est rigoureusement binaire, le possible n’y est jamais...
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