Roland Barthes Centenary
2015 marks the centenary of the birth of Roland Barthes. A large number of conferences, exhibitions, publications and other events have been planned by way of commemorating this hugely influential figure and assessing his continuing importance. French Studies and its sister publication French Studies Bulletin have over several decades been central in promoting work on Barthes. Their pages offer a record of the shifting perceptions of his work, as new preoccupations have emerged and new centres of interest have been identified. To mark the centenary year, the editors of both publications have put together a virtual issue that makes a large number of previously published items on Barthes freely available to all (see the table of contents below). These include four substantial articles from the journal, which will be supplemented by an état présent on Barthes studies due to appear in the July 2015 issue (69.3); there are also four shorter articles that have been published in French Studies Bulletin , and thirty reviews in French Studies dating from 1967 to the present. The reviews cover work by, on, or including Barthes, and together with the articles and shorter contributions offer a fascinating overview of many years of scholarship. The editors hope that scholars will find this a helpful and useful resource. All of the articles and reviews can be directly accessed by clicking on the links in the table of contents.
French Studies articles:
ROLAND BARTHES IN RETROSPECT
by John Sturrock
French Studies (1981) 35 (3)
THE SUBJECT OF ENUNCIATION IN ROLAND BARTHES'S LA CHAMBRE CLAIRE
by Johnnie Gratton
French Studies (1996) 50 (2)
RHETORIC, DOXA, AND EXPERIENCE IN BARTHES
by Michael Moriarty
French Studies (1997) 51 (2)
LA MUSIQUE ET LES LETTRES CHEZ BARTHES
by Peter Dayan
French Studies (2003) 57 (3): 335-348
ÉTAT PRÉSENT: ROLAND BARTHES
by Claude Coste
French Studies (Advance Access)
French Studies Bulletin articles:
UNRAVELLING BARTHES'S TEXTURES
by Peter Collier
French Studies Bulletin (1984) 4 (10)
L'HOMME-ROMAN, OU BARTHES ET LA BIOGRAPHIE TABOUE
by Diana Knight
French Studies Bulletin (2004) 25 (90)
THE RECEPTION OF ROLAND BARTHES: THE QUESTION OF THE CLOSET
by Nicholas de Villiers
French Studies Bulletin (2004) 25 (92)
THE RETROSPECTIVE CLOSET-EFFECT: JEAN COCTEAU AND ROLAND BARTHES
by Nicholas de Villiers
French Studies Bulletin (2004) 25 (93)
Book reviews:
Roland Barthes
Reviewed by Sam Ferguson
French Studies (Advance Access)
Raymond Picard, Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture?
Reviewed by Jean Seznec
French Studies (1967) 21 (2)
Philip Thody, Roland Barthes: a Conservative Estimate
Reviewed by John Cruickshank
French Studies (1978) 32 (4)
Annette Lavers, Roland Barthes. Structuralism and After
Reviewed by Christopher Prendergast
French Studies (1983) 37 (3)
George R. Wasserman, Roland Barthes
Reviewed by John Sturrock
French Studies (1983) 37 (4)
Roland Barthes, L'Obvie et l'obtus. Essais critiques III
Reviewed by Annette Lavers
French Studies (1983) 37 (4)
Steven Ungar, Roland Barthes: The Professor of Desire
Reviewed by Andrew Brown
French Studies (1986) 40 (3)
Paul Jay, Self-Representation from Wordsworth to Roland Barthes
Reviewed by Diana Knight
French Studies (1987) 41 (2)
Philippe Roger, Roland Barthes, roman
Reviewed by Annette Lavers
French Studies (1987) 41 (4)
René Pommier, Roland Barthes ras le bol!
Reviewed by Michael Moriarty
French Studies (1987) 41 (4)
René Pommier, Le 'Sur Racine' de Roland Barthes
Reviewed by Peter H. Nurse
French Studies (1990) XLIV (2)
Patrizia Lombardo, The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes
Reviewed by Diana Knight
French Studies (1992) 46 (1)
Philippe Roger, Roland Barthes, roman
Reviewed by Diana Knight
French Studies (1992) 46 (4)
Michael Moriarty, Roland Barthes
Reviewed by Diana Knight
French Studies (1993) 47 (3)
Seán Burke, The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida
Reviewed by Christopher Johnson
French Studies (1994) 48 (3)
Andrew Brown, Roland Barthes: The Figures of Writing
Reviewed by Johnnie Gratton
French Studies (1996) 50 (1)
Andrew Leak, Barthes: Mythologies
Reviewed by Diana Knight
French Studies (1997) 51 (4)
Diana Knight, Barthes and Utopia. Space, Travel, Writing
Reviewed by Patrick ffrench
French Studies (1998) 52 (2)
Diana Knight (ed.) Roland Barthes
Reviewed by James S. Williams
French Studies (1999) 53 (2)
Johnnie Gratton, Expressivism: The Vicissitudes of a Theory in the Writing of Proust and Barthes
Reviewed by Timothy Mathews
French Studies (2002) 56 (3)
Douglas Smith (ed.), Mythologies at 50: Barthes and Popular Culture
Reviewed by Katja Haustein
French Studies (2010) 64 (3)
Leslie Hill, Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism
Reviewed by Gary D. Mole
French Studies (2011) 65 (2)
Kris Pint, The Perverse Art of Reading: On the Phantasmatic Semiology in Roland Barthes' 'Cours au Collège de France'
Reviewed by Patrick ffrench
French Studies (2012) 66 (1)
Katja Haustein, Regarding Lost Time: Photography, Identity, and Affect in Proust, Benjamin, and Barthes
Reviewed by Kathrin Yacavone
French Studies (2013) 67 (2)
Nicholas de Villiers, Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol
Reviewed by Owen Heathcote
French Studies (2013) 67 (2)
Guillaume Bellon, Une parole inquiète: Barthes et Foucault au Collège de France
Reviewed by Lucy O'Meara
French Studies (2013) 67 (2)
Magali Nachtergel, Les Mythologies individuelles: récit de soi et photographie au 20e siècle
Reviewed by Andy Stafford
French Studies (2013) 67 (3)
Ed White, How to Read Barthes' Image — Music — Text
Reviewed by Katja Haustein
French Studies (2014) 68 (1)
Carol Mavor, Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of 'Camera Lucida', 'La Jetée', 'Sans soleil', and 'Hiroshima mon amour'
Reviewed by Max Silverman
French Studies (2014) 68 (1)
Lucy O'Meara, Roland Barthes at the Collège de France
Reviewed by Maria O'Sullivan
French Studies (2014) 68 (2)
Kathrin Yacavone, Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography
Reviewed by Timothy Mathews
French Studies (2014) 68 (4)
