Image, music, text : Essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath.
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TextPublication details: New York : Noonday Press, 1988, c1977.Description: 220 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0374521360
- 9780374521363
- 770.1 BAR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The photographic message -- Rhetoric of the image -- The third meaning -- Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein -- Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives -- The struggle with the angel -- The death of the author -- Musica practica -- From work to text -- Change the object itself -- Lesson in writing -- The grain of the voice -- Writers, intellectuals, teachers.
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)