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Routledge
172 Pages
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Routledge
172 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction – Deliberations: the journals of Roland Barthes Neil Badmington
1. Writing mourning Antoine Compagnon
2. Barthes deliberates: Pascal, Ignatius and the question of the diary Diana Knight
3. Diary-writing and the return of Gide in Barthes’s ‘Vita Nova’ Sam Ferguson
4. Barthes and Antonioni in China: the muffling of criticism Lucy O’Meara
5. Roland Barthes’s Travels in China: writing a diary of dissidence within dissidence? Andy Stafford
6. Bored with Barthes: ennui in China Neil Badmington
7. Punctive grace: reading religion in Barthes’ Mourning Diary Emma Mason
8. Mourning Diary: love’s work Wernmei Yong Ade
Biography
Neil Badmington is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University.
