Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.
Literature
- Books by Roland Barthes
- Mythologies, Paris: Seuil, 1957
- S/Z, Seuil: Paris, 1970
- Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, 1975/1977
- Image-Music-Text, essays, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977
- Fragments d’un discours amoureux, Paris: Seuil, 1977
- A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, trans. Richard Howard, New York: Hill and Wang, 1979.
- La chambre claire : note sur la photographie [Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography], 1980-
- Essais critiques, Paris: Seuil, 1981
- Incidents, University of California Press, 1992 (in English).
- Œuvres complètes [Complete works], Editions du Seuil: Paris, 1993
- Articles, papers, chapters
- "Le message photographique", Communications, vol. 1, no.1, 1961:127-138.
- "The Photographic Message", trans. Stephen Heath, chap. in Image-Music-Text, essays, New York: Hill and Wang, 1977 (Reprint in: A Barthes Reader, ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill and Wang, 1982: 194-210).
- "Rhétorique de l'image", Communications, vol. 4, no. 4, 1964:40-51.
- "Rhetoric of the Image", in Alan Trachtenberg (ed.), Classic Essays on Photography, New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980: 269-285.
- Books about Roland Barthes
- Susan Sontag, "Remembering Barthes", in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980
- George R. Wasserman, Roland Barthes, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981
- Susan Sontag, "Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes", introduction to Roland Barthes, A Barthes Reader, ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
- Réda Bensmaïa, The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text, trans. Pat Fedkiew, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987
- Allen Graham, Roland Barthes, London: Routledge, 2003
- Jean-Claude Milner, El paso filosófico de Roland Barthes, Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 2004
