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A Roland Barthes Reader
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‘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 RepublicEdited 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
Additional information
| Weight | 0.452 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 560 |
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| Year Published | 1993-7-15 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099224917 |
| About The Author | 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. |
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 |
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| Other text | 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 |
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