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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)
Part I: Mapping Barthes
1 Roland Barthes’s Myth of Photography
Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
2. Barthes and the Search for Rigor
Thomas Pavel (University of Chicago, USA)
3. Barthes and the French Classics
Michael Moriarty (University of Cambridge, UK)
4. The Pleasure of Paradigm: Sade, Fourier, Loyola
Rudolphus Teeuwen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
5. Understanding Barthes, Understanding Proust
Thomas Baldwin (University of Kent, UK)
6. Take Two: Barthes and Film in the Age of Mythologies
Steven Ungar (University of Iowa, USA)
7. Barthes, Bazin, and Écriture
Dudley Andrew (Yale University, USA)
8. Barthes’s Hedonism
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA)
Part II: Legacies and Afterlives
9. Point Counterpoint: Derrida’s “The Deaths of Roland Barthes”
Brian O’Keeffe (Barnard College, USA
10. Objects of Desire: Chosisme after OOO
Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)
11. Orpheus Turning: The Reader to Come in Camera Lucida
Daniel T. O’Hara (Temple University, USA)
12. No Wish to “Understand” nor to “Grasp”: Opacity in the Work of Roland Barthes and Édouard Glissant
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
13. Roland Barthes and Don DeLillo on Living Together/Apart
Herman Rappaport (Wake Forest University, USA)
14. Barthes: Visual Culture and Homosexual Sociabilities
Magali Nachtergael (University of Paris 13, France)
Part III: Glossary
15. Author
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
16. Codes
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
17. Haiku
Brian O’Keeffe (Barnard College, USA)
18. Jouissance
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
19. The Neutral
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
20. Readerly/Writerly
Warren Motte (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
21. Sign
Dinda L. Gorlée (University of Bergen, Norway)
22. Semiology
Dinda L. Gorlée (University of Bergen, Norway)
23. Structuralism
Dinda L. Gorlée (University of Bergen, Norway)
24. Studium/Punctum
Andy Stafford (University of Leeds, UK)
25. Work/Text
Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Notes on Contributors
Index