Roland Barthes

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Mythologies

Roland Barthes

‘Barthes’ purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture’ The Times In this magnificent and often surprising collection of…

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A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

Roland Barthes

The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. This book revives -…

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Incidents

Roland Barthes

French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in twentieth-century literary thought. This title presents the life and thought of Barthes…

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The Pleasure of the Text

Roland Barthes

Addresses the theoretical question of what constitutes pleasure in reading and seeks to identify the elements of a text which provide pleasure. This work encompasses literary, critical, cultural and semiotic…

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Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Barthes par Barthes is a genuinely post-modern autobiography, an innovation in the art of autobiography comparable in its theoretical implications for our understanding of autobiography to Sartre’s The Words. –Hayden…

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A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

Professor Roland Barthes (Formerly, University of Paris)

Originally published in French: France: Editions du Seuil, 1977; English translation originally published in the USA: Hill and Wang, 1978.

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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Professor Roland Barthes (Formerly, University of Paris)

Examines the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death. This title offers an investigation into the nature of photographs.

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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Roland Barthes

Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these ‘reflections on photography’ begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then…

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