ROLAND BARTHES
Dates of Birth/Death: 1915-1980
Gender: Male
Nationality: French/European
Literary Periods: Postwar Period, 1945-1999; Twentieth Century, 1900-1999
Literary Movements: Postmodernism 1963-
BOOKS AT COLBY
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How to Live Together by Call Number: PS3552.A45 Z7597 2008ISBN: 9780231136167Publication Date: 2012-12-18In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containing Barthes's challenge to the classic oppositions of Western thought and his effort to establish new pathways of meaning. How to Live Together predates both of these achievements, a series of lectures exploring solitude and the degree of contact necessary for individuals to exist and create at their own pace. -
A Barthes Reader byCall Number: ART NX65 .B37 1982ISBN: 0809028158Publication Date: 1982-08-01Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980
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New Critical Essays byCall Number: PQ139 .B3213 1980ISBN: 0810103702Publication Date: 1980Most of the work in Critical Essays marks an apparently decisive conversion to structuralism understood in its strictest sense, whereby literature and social life are regarded as 'no more than' languages, to be studied not in their content but in their structure, as pure relational systems.
REFERENCE AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Scribner Writers Series [Database]
Essay on the life and works of Roland Barthes, complete works and suggested reading bibliographies
RESEARCH & CRITICISM
Books, essays, and journal articles indexed in MLA International Bibliography [Database]
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ACADEMIC PAPERS
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Hill, Leslie.: "Radical indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the future of criticism."Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame UP, 2010. pp. xiv, 438. (2010)
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Schulenberg, Ulf.: "From redescription to writing: Rorty, Barthes, and the idea of a literary culture."New Literary History (38:2) 2007, 371-87. (2007)
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Jay, Martin.: "Roland Barthes and the tricks of experience."Yale Journal of Criticism (14:2) 2001, 469-76. (2001)
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Polan, Dana.: "Inexact science: complexity and contradiction in Roland Barthes's 'classic semiology'."Yale Journal of Criticism (14:2) 2001, 453-62. (2001)
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Carlier, J. C.: "Roland Barthes's resurrection of the author and redemption of biography."Cambridge Quarterly (29:4) 2000, 386-93. (2000)