Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes
Deliberations: The Journals of Roland Barthes

Author: Neil Badmington

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-11-08

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 135180555X

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‘I’ve never kept a journal’, Roland Barthes declared in 1979, ‘ – or, rather, I’ve never known if I should keep one’. The form itself, he continued, was inferior and ‘unnecessary’, a ‘minor mania of writing’. Barthes died months making this statement, and the years since then have revealed that he had actually been concealing a fondness for diary-writing. The publication in 1985 of Incidents brought to light an intimate journal entitled ‘Soirées de Paris’, while 2009 saw the appearance of two much longer diaries kept by Barthes following the death of his mother in 1977 and during a trip to China in 1974, respectively. Further journals lie in the archive, unpublished and largely unseen; it is not clear if these will ever enter the public domain. This collection, which brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the field, considers the present implications of Roland Barthes’ journals. How do these diaries invite us to reconsider aspects of Barthes’ work which have become familiar through his reception as one of the twentieth century’s most influential literary and cultural critics? What do they allow us to see for the first time? What is their relation to the works whose appearance Barthes authorised during his lifetime? Where and how do they fit in his oeuvre? How do they relate to each other across moment and mood? Why might they call for deliberations? This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

The Afterlives of Roland Barthes
The Afterlives of Roland Barthes

Author: Neil Badmington

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1474297463

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Roland Barthes – the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first book to revisit and reassess Barthes' thought in light of these posthumously published writings. Covering work such as Barthes' Mourning Diary, the notes for his projected Vita Nova and many writings yet to be translated into English, Neil Badmington reveals a very different Barthes of today than the figure familiar from the writings published in his lifetime.

Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing
Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing

Author: Sam Ferguson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0192545825

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This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works. From the 1880s it became apparent to writers in France that their diaries—a supposedly private form of writing —would probably come to be published, strongly affecting the way their readers viewed their other published works, and their very persona as an author. More than any other, André Gide embraced the literary potential of the diary: the first part of this book follows his experimentation with the diary in the fictional works Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891) and Paludes (1895), in his diary of the composition of his great novel, Le Journal des faux-monnayeurs (1926), and in his monumental Journal 1889-1939 (1939). The second part follows developments in diary-writing after the Second World War, inflected by radical changes in attitudes towards the writing subject. Raymond Queneau's works published under the pseudonym of Sally Mara (1947-1962) used the diary playfully at a time when the writing subject was condemned by the literary avant-garde. Roland Barthes's experiments with the diary (1977-1979) took it to the extremes of its formal possibilities, at the point of a return of the writing subject. Annie Ernaux's published diaries (1993-2011) demonstrate the role of the diary in the modern field of life-writing. Throughout the century, the diary has repeatedly been used to construct an oeuvre and author, but also to call these fundamental literary concepts into question.

Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust
Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust

Author: Jennifer Rushworth

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-11-24

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0192508296

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This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these authors, through their respective narratives of bereavement, grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the deeply personal and painful experience of grief. In Jennifer Rushworth's analysis, discourses of mourning emerge as caught between the twin, conflicting demands of a comforting, readable, shared generality and a silent, solitary respect for the uniqueness of any and every experience of loss. Rushworth explores a variety of major questions in the book, including: what type of language is appropriate to mourning? What effect does mourning have on language? Why and how has the Orpheus myth been so influential on discourses of mourning across different time periods and languages? Might the form of mourning described in a text and the form of closure achieved by that same text be mutually formative and sustaining? In this way, discussion of the literary representation of mourning extends to embrace topics such as the medieval sin of acedia, the proper name, memory, literary epiphanies, the image of the book, and the concept of writing as promise. In addition to the three primary authors, Rushworth draws extensively on the writings of Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Roland Barthes. These rich and diverse psychoanalytical and French theoretical traditions provide terminological nuance and frameworks for comparison, particularly in relation to the complex term melancholia.

Narrative and Mental Health
Narrative and Mental Health

Author: Jarmila Mildorf

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 019762054X

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Narratives surrounding mental health are intertextually and culturally embedded in a constantly evolving web of narratives, whether it is in research and treatment practices in psychology and psychiatry, the professional categorization and definition of mental health issues, people's own definitions of mental health, or medial as well as artistic representations of different mental health states. Narrative and Mental Health: Reimagining Theory and Practice investigates the nexus between narratives and mental health from an interdisciplinary perspective, offering a dialogue between psychology and psychiatry and other fields such as social work, linguistics, philosophy, literary studies, and cultural studies. Contributors from various disciplines and countries across the globe address questions surrounding mental health and illness in individual as well as cultural stories while also attending to their mutual influence. Narrative interviews, narrative psychology, narrative therapy, diary writing, and psychodynamic processes are explored alongside oral history, news media, graphic novels, film, fiction, and literary autobiographies. At the same time, the volume acknowledges the potential limitations of these narrative paradigms, especially when coupled with normative expectations of truthfulness, coherence, and comprehensiveness. From here, mental health emerges as a dynamic concept that is subject to change over time and which deserves close attention both in research and practice.

Mourning Diary
Mourning Diary

Author: Roland Barthes

Publisher: Hill and Wang

Published: 2010-10-12

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1429977078

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A major discovery: The lost diary of a great mind—and an intimate, deeply moving study of grief The day after his mother's death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's dismissal of grief. These 330 cards, published here for the first time, prove a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his work. Behind the unflagging mind, "the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful literary critic to have emerged anywhere" (Susan Sontag), lay a deeply sensitive man who cherished his mother with a devotion unknown even to his closest friends.

The Afterlives of Roland Barthes
The Afterlives of Roland Barthes

Author: Neil Badmington

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1474297471

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Roland Barthes – the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first book to revisit and reassess Barthes' thought in light of these posthumously published writings. Covering work such as Barthes' Mourning Diary, the notes for his projected Vita Nova and many writings yet to be translated into English, Neil Badmington reveals a very different Barthes of today than the figure familiar from the writings published in his lifetime.

A Barthes Reader
A Barthes Reader

Author: Roland Barthes

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0374521441

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Provides a broad sampling of the late French literary critic's most essential writings, including such works as Writing Degree Zero, Image-Music-Text, and New Critical Essays.

Incidents/Bringing Out Roland Barthes
Incidents/Bringing Out Roland Barthes

Author: Roland Barthes

Publisher:

Published: 1992-07

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780520081024

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BANDED SET OF TWO VOLUMES Incidents, by Roland Barthes In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping "with a view to publication," Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate journal called "Soires de Paris" in which he gave direct notation to his gay desire in its various stages of excitation, panic, and despair. Together with three other uncollected texts by Barthes, including an earlier journal he kept in Morocco, this remarkable document was published in France after its author's death. Bringing Out Roland Barthes, by D. A. Miller In this essay, D. A. Miller offers an album of moments in an imaginary "homosexual encounter" between himself and Roland Barthes. Miller begins by recalling a visit to Paris when he was a young student. He tells of frequenting the St. Germain Drugstore because a fellow student had seen the French writer there one evening. Although he may initially have hoped to see Barthes, Miller says, he eventually contented himself with doing Barthes, experiencing the emporium as he imagined Barthes might. Miller responds to various names, phrases, images, and themes in Barthes's work that provide him occasions for assessing, across differences of nation and generation, some characteristic strains of modern gay experience. BANDED SET OF TWO VOLUMES Incidents, by Roland Barthes In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping "with a view to publication," Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate journal called "Soires de Paris" in which he gave direct notation to his gay desire in its various stages of excitation, panic, and despair. Together with three other uncollected texts by Barthes, including an earlier journal he kept in Morocco, this remarkable document was published in France after its author's death. Bringing Out Roland Barthes, by D. A. Miller In this essay, D. A. Miller offers an album of moments in an imaginary "homosexual encounter" between himself and Roland Barthes. Miller begins by recalling a visit to Paris when he was a young student. He tells of frequenting the St. Germain Drugstore because a fellow student had seen the French writer there one evening. Although he may initially have hoped to see Barthes, Miller says, he eventually contented himself with doing Barthes, experiencing the emporium as he imagined Barthes might. Miller responds to various names, phrases, images, and themes in Barthes's work that provide him occasions for assessing, across differences of nation and generation, some characteristic strains of modern gay experience.