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Roland Barthes
Roland BarthesAcclaimed as France's most important writer-intellectual since Sartre, Barthes offers glimpses of his personal life, identity, and philosophy
Writing the Image After Roland Barthes
PreviewIn Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Jean-Michel Rabaté and nineteen contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in ...
The Eiffel Tower, and Other Mythologies
Roland BarthesIn this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to ...
A Barthes Reader
Roland Barthes'At last, with A Barthes Reader, we have a sort of Michelin guide to one of the most beguiling minds of our era.
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Roland BarthesThen, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris.
Roland Barthes, la littérature et le droit à la mort
Eric MartyCe Journal était posthume dans son écriture même. « La littérature et le droit à la mort » est le titre d’un texte célèbre de Maurice Blanchot.Trente ans après la mort de Roland Barthes (26 mars 1980), un de ses proches amis, ...
Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
Roland Barthes"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Systeme de la Mode
Roland BarthesIn his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion--Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology.
S/Z: An Essay
Roland BarthesPreface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."
Critical Essays
Roland BarthesThe essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France.
The 7th Function of Language
Laurent Binet'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you’ll read this year' - Observer Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van.
Roland Barthes
Graham AllenThis book prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates, including: *existentialism and Marxism *semiology, or the 'language of signs' *structuralism and narrative ...
Roland Barthes
Graham AllenThis book prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates, including: *existentialism and Marxism *semiology, or the 'language of signs' *structuralism and narrative ...
What is Sport?
Roland BarthesIn this elegant paperback gift edition, one of the major figures of 20th-century French literature and thought offers a poetic meditation on professional sport.
Historicizing Theory
PreviewBernard Chapuis and Ermine Herscher, Qualités: objets d'en France (Paris: Editions du May, 1987), 34. The year 1962 saw the first seamless hose. 36. Baudrillard, Ecstasy ofCommunication, 34. 37. Roland Barthes, Mythologies, 2d ed.
The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth): The ...
Roland A. ChampagneThe Structuralists on Myth Roland A. Champagne. © 1992 Roland A. Champagne All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Champagne, Roland A. The structuralists on myth : an introduction / by Roland A.
Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading
PreviewA la recherche du temps perdu Elisabeth Ladenson In Le Plaisir du texte, while discussing his now-famous distinction between textes de plaisir and textes de jouissance, Roland Barthes makes a parenthetical observation about what he ...
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Roland BarthesThis groundbreaking approach established Camera Lucida as one of the most important books of theory on the subject, along with Susan Sontag's On Photography.
The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars ...
Roland BarthesJanis Tomlinson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983). 36. See the seminar “Proust and Photography,” infra, p. 346. 37. Élisabeth de Clermont- Tonnerre, Robert de Montesquiou et Marcel Proust (Paris: Flammarion, 1925), 21 . 38.
The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political ...
Nizan ShakedConceptualist strategies were no exception. As Eve Meltzer showed: “just like conceptual artists, structuralist theorists—Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, the most memorable names ...
The Song of Roland
PreviewHis helmet j to earth has he sunken with limp limbs — all is o'er ! Dead is the Count. Knight Roland gazeth and weepeth sore. Ye shall find in the wide world never a man that sorroweth more. When Roland beheld how his comrade with his ...
Le texte Japon: introuvables et inédits
Maurice PinguetDe Maurice Pinguet, grand connaisseur du Japon, on pourrait dire exactement ce que lui-même écrivait de son ami Roland Barthes : « Le travail intellectuel est souvent comparable à l'agriculture la plus sédentaire : on se taille un ...
Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity
Gabriele SchwabIn The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader, edited by Gill Kirkup, Linda Janes, Kath Woodward, and Fiona Hovenden, 148–58. New York: Routledge, 2000. Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Translated by Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972 ...
Echapper à la psychanalyse
Didier EribonRelisant les Fragments d’un discours amoureux de Roland Barthes et le premier volume de l’Histoire de la sexualité de Michel Foucault, Didier Eribon dégage le geste politique et théorique commun qui les sous-tend : une volonté de ...
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
PreviewAustin Harrington, Barbara L. Marshall, Hans-Peter Müller ... Harrington ASSOCIATIONS Hans-Peter Mu ̈ller AUTHORITY Mark Haugaard AUTONOMY Gertrud Nunner-Winkler BAKHTIN CIRCLE Craig Brandist BARTHES, ROLAND Karine ...
Technologies of Memory in the Arts
PreviewBarthes, R. (1986) The Rustle of Language, translated by R. Howard (New York: Hill and Wang). Barthes, R. (2000) ... Bolter, J., and R. Grusin (1999) Remediation: Understanding New Media (Cambridge MA: MIT Press). Braidotti, R. (2002) ...
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