Screen LibraryBarthes : a very short introduction /
"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&...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: |
2002. ©1983 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Very short introductions ;
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"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. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 144 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-135) and index. |
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9780192801593 (paperback) : 0192801597 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | P85 |
| CLC: | K835.655.5 |
| Call Number: | K835.655.5/B285C |
| Contents: | Man of parts. -- Literary historian. -- Mythologist. -- Critic. -- Polemicist. -- Semiologist. -- Structuralist. -- Hedonist. -- Writer. -- Man of letters. -- Barthes after Barthes. |