“There was one book we read — Roland Barthes’ ‘Camera Lucida,’” Chamandy said. “It was a book about photography, but it ...

Her bestselling debut, based on the loss of her once-deep faith, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login With typical rhetorical flourish and beholden to paradox, Roland Barthes defines his work on 'myth' as an attempt to 'define things'; and ...

the eminent French semiotician Roland Barthes. Barthes is not known for his art. But in the early 1970s, approximately a decade-and-a-half after he published Mythologies, he began to create works ...

Roland Barthes was a quintessentially French intellectual who became internationally famous with his sprightly, witty and uncompromising essays on photography and popular culture. Born in 1915 he ...

And in his essay “The Death of the Author,” literary theorist Roland Barthes criticized and sought to counter “the explanation of the work is always sought in the man who has produced it, as if, ...

While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, ...

There is also Beck’s conceptual framework, which encompasses a larger vision about the nature of photography that is informed by his various readings (Roland Barthes’ “Camera Lucida ...

Roland Barthes described the DS as having “fallen from the sky inasmuch as it appears at first sight as a superlative object”. Who could disagree? It was the epochal DS that spawned the SM ...

"I must say that at the beginning, especially, writers were interested in my work; Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, Italo Calvino, all those people. They were my first fans," Luigi Serafini says from ...

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Who will write the history of tears?” The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s seventh novel returns to this question from ...