Introduction: Understanding Barthes, understanding modernism / Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Zahi Zalloua
Roland Barthes's myth of photography / Jean-Michel Rabaté
Barthes and the search for rigor / Thomas Pavel
Barthes and the French classics / Michael Moriarty
Pleasure in paradigm : Sade, Fourier, Loyola / Rudolphus Teeuwen
Understanding Barthes, understanding Proust / Thomas Baldwin
Take two : Barthes and film in the age of mythologies / Steven Ungar
Barthes, Bazin, and Écriture / Dudley Andrew
Barthes's hedonism / Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Point counterpoint : Derrida's "The deaths of Roland Barthes" / Brian O'Keeffe
Objects of desire : chosisme after object-oriented ontology / Zahi Zalloua
Orpheus turning : the reader to come in Camera Lucida / Daniel T. O'Hara
No wish to "understand" nor to "grasp" : opacity in the work of Roland Barthes and Édouard Glissant / Andy Stafford
Roland Barthes and Don Delillo on living together/Apart / Herman Rapaport
Barthes : visual culture and homosexual sociabilities / Magali Nachtergael
Author / Andy Stafford
Codes / Andy Stafford
Haiku / Brian O'Keeffe
Jouissance / Andy Stafford
The neutral / Andy Stafford
Readerly/writerly / Warren Motte
Sign / Dinda L. Gorlée
Semiology / Dinda L. Gorlée
Structuralism / Dinda L. Gorlée
Studium/punctum / Andy Stafford
Work/text / Gerald Prince.