Addresses the theoretical question of what constitutes pleasure in reading and seeks to identify the elements of a text which provide pleasure. This work encompasses literary, critical, cultural and semiotic…

In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of…

The articles in this book examine Barthes’ notions of creation, emotion and jouissance. Through the gaps, interstices and points of contact in that conceptual trinity, this work creates a space…

Roland Barthes 2.0is a re-reading and a re-purposing for the twenty-first century of the critical theories of France’s most important writer of the twentieth century. The volume argues that Barthes’s…

A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps…

In Surviving and Thriving as a Superintendent of Schools, former superintendent Stephen Dlott presents a positive perspective of what superintendents need to do to become successful. A combination of sensitivity…

Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes’s life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence through the last years of his life. The first English-language…

Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained…