Anxiety, in particular, is a dominant force, reflected in rising mental health struggles tied to identity, freedom and choice. Viewing anxiety as a philosophical and existential issue, rather than ...

Last Quarter – Yazawa's supernatural shoujo manga from 1998 – has been lost to the English-speaking world until this fall ...

the eminent French semiotician Roland Barthes. Barthes is not known for his art. But in the early 1970s, approximately a decade-and-a-half after he published Mythologies, he began to create works ...

Being a Marxist in America is an often bewildering fate, as the towering literary critic Fredric Jameson, who died last month ...

In 2003 the Nobel laureate had a torrid romance with Marc Marie, a French acquaintance. In “The Use of Photography,” they ...

The Wrath of Khan is beloved by Trekkies the world over. Well, unless that Trekkie is Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.

Roland Barthes was a quintessentially French intellectual who became internationally famous with his sprightly, witty and uncompromising essays on photography and popular culture. Born in 1915 he ...

While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, ...

A key area of study in cognitive literary theory is how literature stimulates imagination, encouraging readers to visualize scenes, events and characters. By engaging readers’ mental imagery, ...

Last year, Wendy Cope’s poem, "The Orange", went viral on TikTok. I’m not totally certain how a poem goes viral, but it did – ...

The hat-wearing photo of Bhagat Singh, born this week over a century ago, is how we remember him visually. Punjabi writer ...

Her attitudinizing is the distaff version of David Muir’s equally treacherous blandness. Roland Barthes’s 1957 essay “The Face of Garbo,” taught in academic media-theory classes, defined an archetype ...