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 Barthess Myth of Photography Jean-Michel Rabate (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 Ecriture Dudley Andrew (Yale University, USA) 8. Barthess Hedonism Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) Part II: Legacies and Afterlives 9. Point Counterpoint: Derridas The Deaths of Roland Barthes Brian OKeeffe (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. OHara (Temple University, USA) 12. No Wish to Understand nor to Grasp: Opacity in the Work of Roland Barthes and Edouard 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 OKeeffe (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. Gorlee (University of Bergen, Norway) 22. Semiology Dinda L. Gorlee (University of Bergen, Norway) 23. Structuralism Dinda L. Gorlee (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