Barthes: A Very Short Introduction Paperback / softback
by Jonathan (, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University) Culler
Part of the Very Short Introductions series
Paperback / softback
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This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible.
He has a multi-faceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing a theory of literature which gives the reader a creative role.
This book describes the many projects, which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena - from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising to notions of the self, of history, and of nature.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, 13 halftones and 5 line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/2002
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- ISBN:9780192801593
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, 13 halftones and 5 line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780192801593
