Report on the ‘Global Barthes’ conference held at Meiji University, Tokyo, Saturday 18 May 2024.
Category Archives: Volume 10: Preparations
BOOK REVIEW: A Lover’s Discourse Through Fresh Eyes
Review of Patrick ffrench and Timothy Mathews, eds, ‘Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again’, special issue of CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary, 9.1 (April 2023).
BOOK REVIEW: A Subtle Dance
Review of Katja Haustein, Alone With Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Preparatory Space: Roland Barthes and Large Language Models
Beginning
Learning
Article co-authored by Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani.
Reading at the Threshold of Writing: Roland Barthes and Haiku in The Preparation of the Novel
Beyond the Fragment in The Preparation of the Novel: Exploring the Subtle Relationship Between Rhapsodic and Patchwork
Rehearsing
Katarina Zdjelar in conversation with Kate Briggs.
Fantasizing with Barthes: Writing the Present
Interrupting
Aeration and Truth: Reading Mourning Diary as Fragment, Haiku
Tuning In
Brian Blanchfield in conversation with Kate Briggs.
The Absence of the Book: Preparing, Researching, Reading with Barthes
Preparing
Article co-authored by Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani.