A special issue of the journal L’Esprit créateur, co-edited by Thomas Baldwin and Lucy O’Meara from the Department of Modern Languages and Katja Haustein from the Department of Comparative Literature has just been published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
L’Esprit Createur is devoted to the study of French and Francophone literature, film, and culture. Covering all periods from the medieval to the contemporary, L’Esprit Créateur represents the major fields of the discipline of French and Francophone Studies, including literature and literary history, postcolonial studies, gender studies, film and visual studies, ecocriticism, critical theory, and cultural studies.
The special issue is entitled ‘What’s So Great About Roland Barthes?‘ and celebrates the work of French critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915-1980). The issue came out at the end of Barthes’s centenary year (2015), and contains articles by eight international specialists of Barthes’s work, as well as articles by each of the co-editors and a selection of reviews. This project arose out of a series of invited lectures on Barthes held at Kent’s Centre for Modern European Literature in 2013-14.
For more info, see: https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lesprit_createur/toc/esp.55.4.html