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A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory: Essays and Interviews, Volume 1
Roland Barthes
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Hardback. IN Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 212 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France's preeminent College de France, where he chose to style himself as professor of literary semiology ... Read more
Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France's preeminent College de France, where he chose to style himself as professor of literary semiology ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
SB-The French List
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857422262
SKU
V9780857422262
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About Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes (1915-80) was a professor at the College de France until his death. His books include Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography; Image, Music, Text; and A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. He has translated Jean-Paul Sartre's The Aftermath of War, Portraits, and Critical Essays and Andre Gorz's Ecologica and ... Read more
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