A Roland Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period of three decades.
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, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language, sign systems, texts - and what they have to tell us about the concept of the human * New Republic *
Susan Sontag contributes an informative introduction to this collection and arranges his greatest hits chronologically.. This is an excellent entree to a thinker whose precepts have often filtered down into mass culture * Glasgow Herald *
Barthes's work, along with that of Wilde and Valéry, gives being an aesthete a good name... Defending the senses, he never betrayed the mind * Susan Sontag *
Susan Sontag contributes an informative introduction to this collection and arranges his greatest hits chronologically.. This is an excellent entree to a thinker whose precepts have often filtered down into mass culture * Glasgow Herald *
Barthes's work, along with that of Wilde and Valéry, gives being an aesthete a good name... Defending the senses, he never betrayed the mind * Susan Sontag *
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099224914 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099224917 |
| Title | A Roland Barthes Reader |
| Author | Roland Barthes |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1993-07-15 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
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