Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston, Victoria, USA. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symploke, editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange. He has written, edited, or co-edited twenty-five books including the Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (2019).Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College, USA, and Editor of The Comparatist. He is the author of five books, including Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti- Racist Future (2020), Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017). He has edited volumes and special journal issues on globalization, literary theory, ethical criticism, and trauma studies.

[The] book succeeds in conveying Barthes’s awareness and engagement with thinkers and writers of his time as well as his dynamic curiosity for future lines of thought, both of which continue to make his corpus, like modernism itself, so tantalizingly resistant to the unrelenting tenacity of academic labelling.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionUnderstanding Barthes, Understanding ModernismJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)Part I: Mapping Barthes1 Roland Barthes’s Myth of PhotographyJean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)2. Barthes and the Search for RigorThomas Pavel (University of Chicago, USA)3. Barthes and the French ClassicsMichael Moriarty (University of Cambridge, UK)4. The Pleasure of Paradigm: Sade, Fourier, LoyolaRudolphus Teeuwen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)5. Understanding Barthes, Understanding ProustThomas Baldwin (University of Kent, UK)6. Take Two: Barthes and Film in the Age of MythologiesSteven Ungar (University of Iowa, USA)7. Barthes, Bazin, and ÉcritureDudley Andrew (Yale University, USA)8. Barthes’s HedonismJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA)Part II: Legacies and Afterlives9. Point Counterpoint: Derrida’s “The Deaths of Roland Barthes”Brian O’Keeffe (Barnard College, USA10. Objects of Desire: Chosisme after OOOZahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)11. Orpheus Turning: The Reader to Come in Camera LucidaDaniel T. O’Hara (Temple University, USA)12. No Wish to “Understand” nor to “Grasp”: Opacity in the Work of Roland Barthes and Édouard GlissantAndy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)13. Roland Barthes and Don DeLillo on Living Together/ApartHerman Rappaport (Wake Forest University, USA)14. Barthes: Visual Culture and Homosexual SociabilitiesMagali Nachtergael (University of Paris 13, France)Part III: Glossary15. AuthorAndy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)16. CodesAndy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)17. HaikuBrian O’Keeffe (Barnard College, USA)18. JouissanceAndy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)19. The NeutralAndy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)20. Readerly/WriterlyWarren Motte (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)21. SignDinda L. Gorlée (University of Bergen, Norway)22. SemiologyDinda L. Gorlée (University of Bergen, Norway)23. StructuralismDinda L. Gorlée (University of Bergen, Norway)24. Studium/PunctumAndy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)25. Work/TextGerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania, USA)Notes on ContributorsIndex