Roland Barthes

Michael Moriarty is also the author of Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France, (Cambridge University Press, 1988).

• Preface ixA Note on References xAbbreviations xiiIntroduction 1Part I Sign and Ideology 151 Myths 192 Writing and Responsibility 313 Barthes on Theatre 44Part II The Structuralist Activity 534 Literary Structuralism I: The Ethnography of Tragedy 595 'A Little Scientific Delirium': Barthes as Semiologist 736 Literary Structuralism II: Narrative Analysis 91Part III Beyond the Sign 1037 The Post-Structural Analysis of Narrative 1178 Text and its Pleasures 143Part IV Late Barthes 1559 Affirming the Imaginary 16910 The Body 18611 Image and Real 195Biographical Appendix 209Notes 211Bibliography 241Index 249

'Moriarty's considerable achievement in this book is to provide a sustained focus on the forms and functions of the politics of Barthes's writing ... Moriarty's account will guide and illuminate the readings of newcomers to his work as well as enhancing and enriching the rereadings of those who already know Barthes.' Ann Jefferson, New College, Oxford 'A lucid and detailed account of the range of Barthes's work.'French Studies'Michael Moriarty's study is, I believe, excellent news for the undergraduate interested in Barthes. Though not specifically on literary theory, it will prove to be a comprehensive account of Barthes' importance to this discipline.' Modern and Contemporary France