| Description |
144 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Series |
Very short introductions ; 56 |
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Very short introductions ; 56
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| Contents |
Man of parts. -- Literary historian. -- Mythologist. -- Critic. -- Polemicist. -- Semiologist. -- Structuralist. -- Hedonist. -- Writer. -- Man of letters. -- Barthes after Barthes |
| Summary |
"Roland Barthes (1915-80) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world intelligible'. He has a multifaceted 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 literature which gives the reader a creative role." "He called for 'the death of the author', urging that we study not writers but texts, yet he himself published idiosyncratic books rightly celebrated as imaginative products of a personal vision." "Jonathan Culler elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of this 'public experimenter' and describes the many projects which Barthes explored."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Previous ed. (i.e. 1st ed.): London : Fontana, 1983 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-140) and index |
| Notes |
Previous ed. (i.e. 1st ed.): London : Fontana, 1983 |
| Subject |
Barthes, Roland -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Barthes, Roland, 1915-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Barthes, Roland.
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Linguists -- France -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2002514397 |
| ISBN |
0192801597 |
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9780192801593 |
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