Barthes Studies
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An open-access, independent, peer-reviewed journal for research in English on the work of Roland Barthes. Based at Cardiff University.
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Barthes Studies
An open-access journal for research in English on the work of Roland Barthes
sites.cardiff.ac.uk
The Barthes Studies journal is ten years old today. All eleven volumes published to date are free to read online here:
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/
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Roland Barthes in "The Brontë Sisters" (with Marie-France Pisier) - BOTD
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Roland Barthes in "The Brontë Sisters" (with Marie-France Pisier) - BOTD
November 12 — Roland Barthes writes in his diary a few weeks after the death of his mother:
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
November 12 — Roland Barthes writes in his diary a few weeks after the death of his mother:
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‘The Death of the Author’ and Ordinary Language Philosophy
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November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The Barthes Studies journal is ten years old today. All eleven volumes published to date are free to read online here:
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/
Barthes Studies
An open-access journal for research in English on the work of Roland Barthes
sites.cardiff.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The Barthes Studies journal is ten years old today. All eleven volumes published to date are free to read online here:
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/
12 November. Roland Barthes was born on this day in 1915. Here he is with his mother in Cherbourg (the city of his birth) in January 1916.
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
12 November. Roland Barthes was born on this day in 1915. Here he is with his mother in Cherbourg (the city of his birth) in January 1916.
Just published: Michael David Szekely, ‘The Corporealisation of Language Through the Body of Music: Revisiting Barthes’s “Musica Practica”’:
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The Corporealisation of Language Through the Body of Music: Revisiting Barthes’s “Musica Practica”
In this chapter, we will trace the “corporealisation of language” through revisiting Barthes’s “Musica Practica,” and how his theory of the Text is expressed by way of hi...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Just published: Michael David Szekely, ‘The Corporealisation of Language Through the Body of Music: Revisiting Barthes’s “Musica Practica”’:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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This essay about Barthes as a teacher is a delight and revelation.
"Barthes apparently preferred socializing with students to being with colleagues. He hung out with Bouttes and his roommate smoking marijuana and enjoying a kind of student bohemian life." (Ohmygawd! Roland!)
"Barthes apparently preferred socializing with students to being with colleagues. He hung out with Bouttes and his roommate smoking marijuana and enjoying a kind of student bohemian life." (Ohmygawd! Roland!)
My new essay on #RolandBarthes as professor. This is based on my year in his seminar 1972-73 in Paris.
Tutoy-ing: Roland Barthes et Moi
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October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This essay about Barthes as a teacher is a delight and revelation.
"Barthes apparently preferred socializing with students to being with colleagues. He hung out with Bouttes and his roommate smoking marijuana and enjoying a kind of student bohemian life." (Ohmygawd! Roland!)
"Barthes apparently preferred socializing with students to being with colleagues. He hung out with Bouttes and his roommate smoking marijuana and enjoying a kind of student bohemian life." (Ohmygawd! Roland!)
Reposted by Barthes Studies
My new essay on #RolandBarthes as professor. This is based on my year in his seminar 1972-73 in Paris.
Tutoy-ing: Roland Barthes et Moi
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sites.cardiff.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My new essay on #RolandBarthes as professor. This is based on my year in his seminar 1972-73 in Paris.
Volume 11 of Barthes Studies is now available online. As usual, all articles are completely free to read:
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
Articles by volume
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October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Volume 11 of Barthes Studies is now available online. As usual, all articles are completely free to read:
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
Includes a response by Roland Barthes. (Thanks to @johnwbuaas.bsky.social for pointing this out.)
In 1977, the Times Literary Supplement asked writers to nominate the most underrated and overrated books & authors of the past 75 years. Philip Larkin's nomination of Barbara Pym led to the rediscovery of her work. See all the underrated candidates here:
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October 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Includes a response by Roland Barthes. (Thanks to @johnwbuaas.bsky.social for pointing this out.)
The Séminaire annuel de l’équipe Barthes is about to begin again at the École normale supérieure in Paris. The programme of events, which are open to all, is here:
roland-barthes.org/seminaire/
roland-barthes.org/seminaire/
Séminaire | Site Roland Barthes
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October 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Séminaire annuel de l’équipe Barthes is about to begin again at the École normale supérieure in Paris. The programme of events, which are open to all, is here:
roland-barthes.org/seminaire/
roland-barthes.org/seminaire/
Several of the articles in this 2020 special issue titled Neutral Life/Late Barthes — including Barthes’s ‘Colouring Degree Zero’ — are currently free to read in OA format.
ICYMI: Ryan Bishop, 'A Circle of Fragments: Barthes, Burgin, and the Interruption of Rhetoric' - examines Barthes’s writings on pre-Socratic rhetoric, as well as his self-reflexive engagement with his own theorizing. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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October 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Several of the articles in this 2020 special issue titled Neutral Life/Late Barthes — including Barthes’s ‘Colouring Degree Zero’ — are currently free to read in OA format.
Volume 10 of Barthes Studies is now available online. All articles are free to read. This year’s volume is a special issue titled ‘Preparations’, guest-edited by Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani.
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
Volumes
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November 12, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Volume 10 of Barthes Studies is now available online. All articles are free to read. This year’s volume is a special issue titled ‘Preparations’, guest-edited by Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani.
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
The Scottish Literary Review (@scotlit.bsky.social) has published a study of the work of the late Callie Gardner. Callie was the first Reviews Editor of Barthes Studies and their Cardiff PhD thesis became the wonderful Poetry & Barthes book in 2018.
muse.jhu.edu/article/930914
muse.jhu.edu/article/930914
Project MUSE - Poems in Letters: Callie Gardner's 'Letteriness'
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September 15, 2024 at 7:02 AM
The Scottish Literary Review (@scotlit.bsky.social) has published a study of the work of the late Callie Gardner. Callie was the first Reviews Editor of Barthes Studies and their Cardiff PhD thesis became the wonderful Poetry & Barthes book in 2018.
muse.jhu.edu/article/930914
muse.jhu.edu/article/930914