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Attempting to provide a more precise meaning to the term ""modernism"", this text combines psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts in rereading the history of modernity. The author focuses throughout on a single theme - the ghostly nature of modernity.

Concerned with the work of Italo Calvino, this text looks at the author in English translation, appraises his place in world literature and traces his development as a post-modern writer from the start of his writing career during World War II to his death in 1985.

Nancy Shawcross places Barthes' thought on photography in the context of his developing ideas about semiology, tracking origins, rejections and departures. She shows Barthes' affinities with and distinction from, other theorists of photography.