Roland Barthes. Sade/Fourier/Loyola.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. 184 pp. $14.95.
Roland Barthes, who died in 1980, was a gifted and attentive practitioner of text whose writings wove together Russian formalist poetics, Saussurian linguistics, ancient rhetoric, and Marxist ideological critique into a unique voice whose texture covers much of structuralism and its decentering, post-structuralism. One year after the ...