Roland Barthes (Paperback)

Preface ix

A Note on References x

Abbreviations xii

Introduction 1

Part I Sign and Ideology 15

1 Myths 19

2 Writing and Responsibility 31

3 Barthes on Theatre 44

Part II The Structuralist Activity 53

4 Literary Structuralism I: The Ethnography of Tragedy 59

5 'A Little Scientific Delirium': Barthes as Semiologist 73

6 Literary Structuralism II: Narrative Analysis 91

Part III Beyond the Sign 103

7 The Post-Structural Analysis of Narrative 117

8 Text and its Pleasures 143

Part IV Late Barthes 155

9 Affirming the Imaginary 169

10 The Body 186

11 Image and Real 195

Biographical Appendix 209

Notes 211

Bibliography 241

Index 249