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Barthes, Roland --- Collège de France --- Barthes, Roland, --- Barthes, Roland. --- Collège de France. --- France. --- Paris. --- Paris (France). --- Ḳoleg' deh Frans --- Fa-lan-hsi hsüeh yüan --- Korēji do Furansu --- K'olleju tŭ P'ŭrangsŭ --- Barthes, R. --- Барт, Ролан --- Bart, Rolan --- Baruto, Roran --- בארת, רולאן --- بارت، رولان --- ロラン・バルト --- Luolan Bate --- 羅蘭・巴特 --- France. Collège --- Paris. Collège de France --- Paris (France). Collège de France --- Barthes, Roland, - 1915-1980

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Asymptote: An Approach to Decadent Fiction offers a radically new approach to the psychology of Decadent creation. Rejecting traditional arguments that Decadence is a celebration of deviance and exhaustion, this study presents the fin-de-siecle novel as a transformative process, a quest for health. By allowing the writer to project into fiction unwanted traits and destructive tendencies – by permitting the playful invention of provisional identities –, Decadent creation itself becomes a dynamic act of creative regeneration. In describing the interrelationship of Decadent authors and their fictions, Asymptote uses the mathematical figure of the asymptote to show how they converge, then split apart, and grow distant. The author’s approach to the facsimile selves he plays with and discards is the curve that never merges with his authorial identity. In successive chapters, this study describes the Decadents’ experimentation with perversion (Huysmans’s A rebours and Mendes’s Zo’har ), and their subsequent validation of social regulation and creative discipline. It examines magic and its appeal to fantasies of elitism and omnipotence (Péladan’s Le Vice supreme and Villiers’s Axël ), then shows authors embracing the values of community and service. It considers the Decadent text as a vehicle of change in which an artist ventilates fantasies of aggression and revenge (Mirbeau’s Le Journal d’une femme de chamber and Rachilde’s La Marquise de Sade ) then employs writing as the means by which these feelings are discharged. It examines creation as a form of play , “une aliénation grâce à laquelle l’esprit se récupère sous la forme des autres” (Schwob’s Vies imaginaries and Lorrain’s Histoires de masques ), yet notes the Decadents’ decision to return to a single generative center. Finally, it examines creation as an expression of artistic transience and failure, yet shows the Decadents’ success in commemorating the very forces of disintegration (Rodenbach’s L’Art en exil ). In considering the Decadents’ insistence on subjectivism and aloneness, this study concludes (Gourmont’s Sixtine ) by showing their wish to escape the prison of identity and to redefine their art as cooperative creation.

Fiction --- French literature --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- Décadentisme --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- France. --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Farans --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant͡ --- Frant͡s Uls --- Frant͡sii͡ --- Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika --- Frantsyi͡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangs --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Décadentisme

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‘I sincerely believe that at the origin of teaching such as this we must always locate a fantasy’. This provoking remark was the starting point of the four lecture courses Roland Barthes taught as professor of literary semiology at the Collège de France . In these last years of his life, Barthes developed a perverse reading theory in which the demonic stupidity of the fantasy becomes an active force in the creation of new ways of thinking and feeling. The perverse art of reading offers the first extensive monograph on these lecture courses. The first part examines the psychoanalytical and philosophical intertexts of Barthes’ ‘active semiology’ (Lacan, Kristeva, Winnicott, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Foucault), while the second part discusses his growing attention for the intimate, bodily involvement in the act of reading. Subsequently, this study shows how Barthes’ phantasmatic reading strategy radically reviews the notions of space, detail and the untimely in fiction, as well as the figure of the author and his own role as a teacher. It becomes clear that the interest of Barthes’ lecture courses goes well beyond semiology and literary criticism, searching the answer to the ethical question par excellence: how to become what one is, how to live a good life.

Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Reading. --- Semiotics and literature. --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. --- Semiotics and literature --- Reading --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Theory, etc --- Literature and semiotics --- Barthes, Roland --- Semiotics --- Language arts --- Elocution --- Study and teaching --- Bart, Rolan --- Barthes, R. --- Baruto, Roran --- Luolan Bate --- Collège de France. --- Fa-lan-hsi hsüeh yüan --- France. --- Ḳoleg' deh Frans --- K'olleju tŭ P'ŭrangs --- Korēji do Furansu --- Paris. --- Paris (France). --- K'olleju tŭ P'ŭrangsŭ --- Барт, Ролан --- בארת, רולאן --- بارت، رولان --- ロラン・バルト --- 羅蘭・巴特

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Geology --- Geology. --- Geologie. --- France. --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Farans --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant͡ --- Frant͡s Uls --- Frant͡sii͡ --- Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika --- Frantsyi͡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangs --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat

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Roland Barthes at the Collège de France studies the four lecture courses given by Barthes in Paris between 1977 and 1980. This study, the first full-length account of this material, places Barthes's teaching within institutional, intellectual and personal contexts. Analysing the texts and recordings of Comment vivre ensemble, Le Neutre and La Préparation du roman I et II in tandem with Barthes's 1970s output, the book brings together for the first time all the strands of Barthes's activity as writer, teacher and public intellectual. Theoretically wide-ranging in scope, Lucy O'Meara's study focuses particularly on Barthes's pedagogical style, addressing how his wilfully un-magisterial teaching links to the anti-systematic, anti-dogmatic goals of the rest of his work. Barthes's methodology sought to negotiate the balance between singularity and universality, and central to this endeavour are aesthetic thought and techniques of essayism and fragmentation. Barthes's strategies are here linked to broad intellectual influences, from the legacies of Montaigne, Kant, Schlegel and Adorno to the contemporary intellectual trends which Barthes sought to evade, and his attraction towards Eastern philosophies such as Zen and Tao. Barthes's lectures discuss ideal forms of community life, 'neutral' modes of discourse and behaviour, and the idea of writing a novel. His consideration of these fantasies involves a profound exploration of the nature of literary creation, social interaction, subjectivity, and the possibility of a universal particular. Roland Barthes at the Collège de France reassesses the critical and ethical priorities of Barthes's work in the decade before his death, demonstrating the vitally affirmative core of Barthes's late thought.

Barthes, Roland -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Semiotics and literature. --- Structuralism (Literary analysis). --- Languages & Literatures --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Philology & Linguistics --- Barthes, Roland --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Collège de France. --- France. --- Paris. --- Paris (France). --- Ḳoleg' deh Frans --- Fa-lan-hsi hsüeh yüan --- Korēji do Furansu --- K'olleju tŭ P'ŭrangsŭ --- Literature and semiotics --- Literature --- Literary theory. --- Barthes, Roland. --- College de France. --- Bart, Rolan --- Barthes, R. --- Baruto, Roran --- Luolan Bate --- K'olleju tŭ P'ŭrangs --- Барт, Ролан --- בארת, רולאן --- بارت، رولان --- ロラン・バルト --- 羅蘭・巴特 --- France. Collège --- Paris. Collège de France --- Paris (France). Collège de France --- Languages --- Barthes --- Collège de France --- Roland Barthes --- Semiotics