Interdisciplinary Barthes

Diana Knight is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Nottingham. Her publications on Barthes include Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing (1997) and Critical Essays on Roland Barthes (2000), an edited anthology illustrating Barthes's reception in France, the UK, and the USA from 1953 to 2000. She is also the author of Flaubert's Characters: The Language of Illusion (1985) and Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in 'La Comédie humaine' (2007). She is General Editor of Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies and a member of the editorial boards of Paragraph and Nottingham French Studies. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction1: DIANA KNIGHT: Roland Barthes, An Interdisciplinary SubjectPart I: Myths, History, and Images2: PHILIPPE ROGER: Barthes's Frenchness3: JONATHAN CULLER: Barthes's Myths of America4: STEPHEN BANN: The Intelligible Versus the Real: Barthes's Historiographical Option5: MARIA O'SULLIVAN: Time and Space: Barthes and the Discourse of History6: ÉRIC MARTY: Barthes and the Visibility Turn: For a Non-Mimetic Image7: KATHRIN YACAVONE: Picturing Barthes: The Photographic Construction of AuthorshipPart II: Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics8: MICHAEL MORIARTY: Barthes and Religion9: LUCY O'MEARA: Barthes and the Lessons of Ancient Philosophy10: MARIELLE MACÉ: Barthes and 'Subtle Forms of Living'11: KRIS PINT: 'A Country Free by Default': Barthes and the Atmospheric Experience of Literature12: FRANÇOIS NOUDELMANN: Barthes and Insignificant Music13: PATRIZIA LOMBARDO: Barthes and the EmotionsPart III: Writing, Criticism, and the Archive14: ANTOINE COMPAGNON: Barthes and Commissioned Writing15: ANDY STAFFORD: Barthes's Menippean Moment: Creative Criticism 1966-7016: CLAUDE COSTE: From Fichier to Œuvre: Barthess 'Our Literature' project17: ANNE HERSCHBERG PIERROT: Barthes, the Desire to Write, and the Prevision of the Work18: TIPHAINE SAMOYAULT: Barthes's Ordinary WritingIndex