A Barthes Reader (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983)
A Barthes Reader, edited by Susan Sontag, collects almost all important early essays of Roland Barthes, ranging from his insightful reading of myth in Mythologies, to his reflection on the playfulness of language in Writing Degree Zero and The Pleasure of the Text, and to his rhetorical examination of the photographic message. A Barthes Reader will help us understand the ways in which Barthes contributes to (post)structuralist semiotics by re-shaping the concept of language and of image.
《羅蘭巴特讀本》（1983）
由蘇珊．宋塔編撰而成的《羅蘭巴特讀本》收錄了羅蘭巴特幾乎所有早期的重要文章，範圍從《神話學》中對神話的精闢詮釋、《寫作的零度》及《文本的樂趣》中對語言之嬉戲性質的省思，以至對攝影影像的修辭分析，可謂無所不包。《羅蘭巴特讀本》可幫助我們瞭解巴特如何重塑語言及意象等概念，以及他對（後）結構主義符號學的貢獻。
The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation (Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1991)
The Responsibility of Forms, a collection of Barthes’s late essays, demonstrates the wide gamut of Barthes’s analytical curiosity: Barthes is concerned with the materiality of the sign not merely in verbal arts but in visual and musical arts. In these essays, we can see that Barthes seeks to blur the boundaries between various kinds of arts and explicate the common value of them, or as Terry Eagleton cogently puts it, “to install himself at the very juncture of sign and body, semiotic and somatic, meaning and materiality.”
《形式之責任：音樂、藝術與再現評論集》（1991）
《形式之責任》彙集巴特的晚期評論文章，充份展示巴特研究範圍之綺麗廣闊: 巴特所關切的符號之物質性，不只是言語藝術方面，更遍及視覺藝術及音樂藝術。從這些論文中，我們可觀察到巴特如何嘗試模糊各種不同藝術之間的分際，剖析其共同價值；或正如泰瑞．伊格頓所言，巴特是「將自身放置在符號與身體、符號學與肉體、意義與物質性之間的交叉點上。」
