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神话
本书采用逐月写作的方式,各篇文章间自然就不刻意地表现任何规律的发展,它们之间的联系,只是一种自我坚持与重复的努力罢了。 -
显义与晦义
本书是罗兰·巴特的第三部“批评文集”。与他谈论文学的方方面面的第一部、第二部和第四部批评文集不同的是,这第三部是有关各种艺术的论文集。像罗兰·巴特写过的其他大部分文本一样,符号学思想也贯穿着这第三部文集,因此,也可以称其为是作者论述艺术符号学的论文集。 -
Mythologies
"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, true, necessary, instead of arbitrary, made, contingent. Mythologies finds Barthes revealing the fashioned systems of ideas that make it possible, for example, for 'Einstein's brain' to stand for, be the myth of, 'a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as a functional labor analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, reservoir of manufactured sense."--Edward W. Said This text refers to the Paperback edition. -
S/Z
Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine." Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980. "S/Z" is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine." "Language was both a luxury and a discipline for Barthes. He pursued a subject through language until he cornered it, until its disguise fell away and it was revealed in a kind of epiphany. In his own way, he cleaned the face of Paris more thoroughly than Andre Malraux did when he ordered its buildings washed down to their original colors and arranged for lights to be played upon them. Musing on the kind of painting done by someone like Ingres, Barthes says that 'painters have left movement the amplified sign of the unstable . . . the solemn shudder of a pose impossible to fix in time . . . the motionless overvaluation of the ineffable.' This might also serve as his definition of classical French prose, and in order to escape its encroachment, Barthes prodded, squeezed and sniffed at language, like a great chef buying fruits and vegetables. He munched distinctions. His sentence rhythms were those of a man who talks with his hands."--Anatole Broyard -
批评与真实
《批评与真实》是法国当代文学批评史上新旧两派一次论战的产品,是巴特对攻击他的一篇文章《新批评还是新骗术》的反击。看来晋仪选译巴特这篇力作,除了它有文献性的价值外,另一原因是她很欣赏作者在他写作中所透露的精神境界:“绝没有权势,只有些许知识,些许智慧和尽可能多一点的趣味。” 目录: 第一部 1.批评的拟真 2.客观性 3.品味 4.明晰性 5.说示无能 第二部 1.评论的危机 2.语言的多元性 3.文学科学化 4.批评 5.阅读 索引 -
神話學
巴特寫作《神話學》的年代,是歐美大眾文化產品大量出現的時代。在這些作品裡,巴特表達出一種必須創出新理論來談論它們的迫切感,他想要解讀包含在事物及其媒介再現中的訊息。背後推動他的,是一股尋求意義的慾望。像是一個在沙灘上傾聽貝殼秘密的好奇小孩,巴特帶著他獨有的記號學嗅覺,為一個又一個流行符號作出詮釋,孕育著一個正在成長之中的新興學科——記號科學。