“There was one book we read — Roland Barthes’ ‘Camera Lucida,’” Chamandy said. “It was a book about photography, but it ...

the eminent French semiotician Roland Barthes. Barthes is not known for his art. But in the early 1970s, approximately a decade-and-a-half after he published Mythologies, he began to create works ...

Her bestselling debut, based on the loss of her once-deep faith, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login With typical rhetorical flourish and beholden to paradox, Roland Barthes defines his work on 'myth' as an attempt to 'define things'; and ...

Roland Barthes was a quintessentially French intellectual who became internationally famous with his sprightly, witty and uncompromising essays on photography and popular culture. Born in 1915 he ...

While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, ...

These three words act like a pact between the one who utters them and the one who receives them – sometimes at the cost of ...

French philosopher Roland Barthes' 1967 essay "The Death of the Author" argues the literary theory of separating the meaning of a work from the author's intention, essentially allowing for a ...

Ventoux is a huge moonscape of rock in Provence with little shade or grass. French philosopher Roland Barthes called it “a ...

There is also Beck’s conceptual framework, which encompasses a larger vision about the nature of photography that is informed by his various readings (Roland Barthes’ “Camera Lucida ...

"I must say that at the beginning, especially, writers were interested in my work; Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, Italo Calvino, all those people. They were my first fans," Luigi Serafini says from ...

Who will write the history of tears?” The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s seventh novel returns to this question from ...