Roland Barthes Retroactively: Reading the Collège de France Lectures

Jürgen Pieters teaches Literary Theory at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Moments of Negotiation. The New Historicism of Stephen Greenblatt (Amsterdam University Press, 2001) and Speaking With the Dead: Explorations in Literature and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). Kris Pint is Lecturer in Cultural and Literary Theory at the Department ofArchitecture and Fine Arts of the Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg,Belgium.

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• Introduction, Jürgen Pieters And Kris Pint; Atonality and Tonality: Musical Analogies in Roland Barthes's Lectures at the Collège de France, Lucy O'meara; 'The Paideia of the Greeks': On the Methodology of Roland Barthes's Comment vivre ensemble, Maarten De Pourcq; How to Become What One Is: Roland Barthes's Final Fantasy, Kris Pint; 'Except When Night Falls': Together and Alone in Barthes's Comment vivre ensemble, Diana Knight; Suspending Events, Loving the Margin: Solitude According to Barthes, Sabine Hillen; Barthes without Althusser: A Different Style of Marxism, Jean-Jacques Lecercle; The 'Inkredible' Roland Barthes, Neil Badmington; 'Préparation du romanesque' in Roland Barthes's Reading of Sarrasine, Andy Stafford; Preparing the Novel: Spiraling Back, Jonathan Culler; Notes on Contributors.