Idle Thoughts: Barthes's <i>Vita Nova</i>

Knight, Diana

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“…4 On Barthes and Dante see Rushworth 2016 and 2018. On Barthes's Vita Nova project, seeKnight 1997 andCoste 1999;Zorica 2009; Samoyault 2015, 649-85 and 2017, 470- 91. For a recent discussion of the contents of the archive and plans to make it available online in future, seeMessager 2021.…”

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Editors’ Introduction: The Case for a Medieval Barthes

Rushworth

Southerden

2021

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This special issue reflects in two different ways on the notion of a "Medieval Barthes." 1 On the one hand, it considers Barthes's own engagement with medieval culture, in his reading of medieval authors and in his engagement with medieval styles of thought. On the other hand, it explores the uses of Barthes within medieval studies: what medievalists have learnt from Barthes; how Barthesian concepts can be adapted for different medieval contexts; how medievalists inflect and change the way we read Barthes's texts. Barthes is not known for his interest in the Middle Ages. His literary tastes tend rather to lean towards French prosewriters of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in particular Stendhal, Jules Michelet, and Marcel Proust. 2 Yet these writers, and nineteenth-century French culture more generally, are at the same time potential conduits of the medieval for Barthes. 3 Moreover, it is our particular contentionas the following essays illustrateboth that Barthes ought to be better known for his intermittent reflections on medieval concepts and that, more broadly, Barthes's writings can be useful for medievalists in ways that have yet to be realized. The Critical LandscapeReflecting on Barthes and the medieval at the present time, our project benefits from and engages with several recent trends within Barthes studies: the emergence of new materials by Barthes published posthumously; publications about Barthes surrounding the 2015 centenary of his birth; increasing recognition of Barthes's interdisciplinarity.Firstly, there are the substantial posthumous publications that continue to emerge and that necessarily nuance and change our view of Barthes. These publications include notes

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Editors’ Introduction: The Case for a Medieval Barthes

Rushworth

Southerden

2021

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“…Barthes's return to Michelet is intimately connected to his search for his own Vita Nova, a novelistic project that is promised in certain texts and also survives in partial, draft, note form (see Barthes 2002e and Barthes 2015a : xxxiii-lxiv, as well as Knight 1997, Coste 1999, Zorica 2009, and Samoyault 2015. I agree with Lucy O' Meara (2012 : 175) that "The question should not be whether Barthes would have written a novel […] : the Préparation makes it clear that that is neither the most pertinent nor the most interesting question".…”

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Barthes’s Return to Michelet and the Question of New Life

Rushworth

2019

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Écrire sans écrire: Barthes et la recherche du roman

Pino

2009

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Ce texte, présenté comme conférence à l'Université de Bourgogne, à Dijon, le 16 décembre 2008, se propose de réfléchir sur Vita Nova, le roman que Barthes travaillait avant son accident fatal, en février 1980. Pour cela, l'article se centre d'abord sur la description des plans de Vita Nova et des autres textes qui faisaient partie du projet. Ensuite, on entreprend une réflexion sur le projet à partir de trois possibilités d'écriture : 1) Écrire un roman, c'est écrire la Recherche du Temps Perdu ; 2) Écrire un roman, c'est faire le contraire ; et 3) Écrire un roman, c'est échapper à la Recherche et tout de même écrire la Recherche.

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Idle Thoughts: Barthes's Vita Nova

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Editors’ Introduction: The Case for a Medieval Barthes

Editors’ Introduction: The Case for a Medieval Barthes

Barthes’s Return to Michelet and the Question of New Life

Écrire sans écrire: Barthes et la recherche du roman

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