A Lover s Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of...... more

, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture...... more

First published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist s most original work--a...... more

In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of description... more

, and teaching--the pleasure of the text--in an authoritative translation by Richard Howard....... more

published here in a graceful and faithful English translation by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard. Originally commissioned...... more

?" --Roland Barthes, from his diary The day after his mother’s death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning...... more

New Critical gathers Roland Barthes’s essays on classic texts of French literature, works by La Rochefoucauld...... more