A Barthes reader / edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : Vintage, 1993.Description: xxxviii, 495 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0099224917 (pbk.) :
- 9780099224914 (pbk.)
- Roland Barthes reader [Cover title]
- 118.85 BAR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'To read through A Barthes Reader is finally to be left with the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time' New Republic
Edited by Susan Sontag, A Roland Barthes Reader offers a definitive selection of works by the French intellectual Roland Barthes, including seminal essays, such as 'Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives' as well as his more unusual works, such as 'The World of Wrestling'.
'At last, with A Barthes Reader , we have a sort of Michelin guide to one of the most beguiling minds of our era. Smartly introduced by Susan Sontag, the Reader samples Barthes' achievement over three decades' Newsweek
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Roland Barthes (1915-1980), a French critic and intellectual, was a seminal figure in late twentieth-century literary criticism. Barthes's primary theory is that language is not simply words, but a series of indicators of a given society's assumptions. He derived his critical method from structuralism, which studies the rules behind language, and semiotics, which analyzes culture through signs and holds that meaning results from social conventions. Barthes believed that such techniques permit the reader to participate in the work of art under study, rather than merely react to it.Barthes's first books, Writing Degree Zero (1953), and Mythologies (1957), introduced his ideas to a European audience. During the 1960s his work began to appear in the United States in translation and became a strong influence on a generation of American literary critics and theorists.
Other important works by Barthes are Elements of Semiology (1968), Critical Essays (1972), The Pleasure of the Text (1973), and The Empire of Signs (1982). The Barthes Reader (1983), edited by Susan Sontag, contains a wide selection of the critic's work in English translation.
(Bowker Author Biography)