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Roland Barthes
The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.
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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…
Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. In his endeavour to confine his love, outrage and passion…
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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Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars, this is the first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes…
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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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Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to…
Examining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy.
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Roland Barthes, Chris Turner
A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant…
Rick Rylance
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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A comprehensive introductory study considering the full range of Barthes’ work, from his early structuralist phase, through his poststructuralist explorations of text to his late writings. It includes an examination…
Martin McQuillan (Professor and Dean, Kingston University, UK)
Roland Barthes was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this new book, Martin McQuillan provides students with a fresh and stimulating perspective on Barthes’ work…
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Graham Allen (University College, Cork, Ireland)
This volume offers a clear picture of Barthes’s work in context. Having explained in detail Barthes’s most influential ideas and their impact, Graham Allen concludes with a guide to easily…
Michael Moriarty
aeo Roland Barthes was one of the major literary and cultural figures of the twentieth century. aeo This is a brilliant and comprehensive study providing an invaluable introduction to Barthesa…
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…
Andy Stafford
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is one of France’s most important writers and theorists of the second half of the twentieth century. Andy Stafford offers a clear-sighted, readable account of Barthes’ work…
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Of all the poststructuralists, Roland Barthes (1915-80) is probably the most widely read. Showsing the vibrancy and dynamism of Barthes Studies, this collection of gathered materials addresses the full range…
Roland Barthes (1915-80) was one of the leading post-structuralist authors of his day as well as making many important contributions to semiotics. These three volumes provide a complete overview of…
‘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…
Professor Neil Badmington (Cardiff University, Cardiff)
Roland Barthes - the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his…
Mary Bittner Wiseman
This book should be of interest to students of philosophy and literature.
Professor Neil Badmington
Nancy Shawcross
Nancy Shawcross places Barthes’ thought on photography in the context of his developing ideas about semiology, tracking origins, rejections and departures. She shows Barthes’ affinities with and distinction from, other…
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Philip Watts (Professor of French, Professor of French, Columbia University)
Roland Barthes’ Cinema offers the first systematic English-language critical treatment of Barthes’ writing on cinema, reassessing the relevance of his work for a new generation of readers and filmgoers.
Philippe Sollers
In Roland Barthes’s eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new.
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This is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural and intellectual challenge to those who believe…
In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to philosophers, linguists…
A personal view of theatre in which Barthes discusses all the major tragedies of Racine as well as the range of critical views of his work.
Roland Barthes, regarded as one of the perceptive critics of the 20th Century, was particularly fascinated by fashion and clothing. This book presents a set of essays, revealing the insight…
These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The…
With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography–in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies–of Japan itself.
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Semiology is the science of signs and symbols, and their role in culture and society. This title presents a scientific definition of Saussurean linguistics and their aftermath.
The linguistic distillation of Barthes’ system of semiology in which the Balzac novella Sarrasine is dissected to uncover layers of meanings and interpretations. Barthes’ interpretation of language and meaning lies…
S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthesa s system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which Balzaca s novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically to uncover layers of…
In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of…
