Barthes A Very Short Introduction

Author : Jonathan Culler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191577543

Get Book

Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler Pdf

This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible. He has a multi-faceted 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 a theory of literature which gives the reader a creative role. This book describes the many projects, which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena - from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising to notions of the self, of history, and of nature. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Jonathan D. Culler
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015056460994

Get Book

Barthes by Jonathan D. Culler Pdf

Author : Catherine Belsey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191604409

Get Book

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Belsey Pdf

Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. Whilst the author discusses such well-known figures as Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan, she also draws pertinent examples from literature, art, film, and popular culture, unfolding the postructuralist account of what it means to be a human being. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Robert Alan Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Myth
ISBN : 9780198724704

Get Book

Myth by Robert Alan Segal Pdf

Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Camus, and Roland Barthes, Segal uses the famous ancient myth of Adonis to analyse their individual approaches and theories. In this new edition, he not only considers the future study of myth, but also considers the interactions of myth theory with cognitive science, the implications of the myth of Gaia, and the differences between story-telling and myth. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Philip Watts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190277550

Get Book

Roland Barthes' Cinema by Philip Watts Pdf

'Roland Barthes' Cinema' re-examines and recontextualizes the competing critical and theoretical strands in Barthes's thinking, and reassesses the relevance of his work for a new generation of readers and filmgoers.

Author : Jonathan D. Culler
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056166377

Get Book

Roland Barthes by Jonathan D. Culler Pdf

Combining biographical material with an overview of Barthes's work, this is a clear and concise guide to his life and writings.

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192803535

Get Book

Film: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Wood Pdf

Offers a wealth of insight into the paradoxical nature of film, considering its role and impact on society in the 20th century as well as its future in the digital age. Original.

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192840998

Get Book

The Elements: A Very Short Introduction by Philip Ball Pdf

This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to identify the substances around them. Looking beyond the Periodic Table, the author takes the reader on an engaging and entertaining tour: from the Greek philosophers who propounded a system with four elements - earth, air, fire, and water - to the modern-day scientists who are able to create their own.

Author : Steve Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192801647

Get Book

Photography: A Very Short Introduction by Steve Edwards Pdf

Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives - from snapshots and tabloid newspapers to art photography in galleries and exhibitions. Edwards combines a sense of the historical development of photography with an insightful analysis of its purpose and meaning within a wider cultural context.

Author : Tiphaine Samoyault
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781509505692

Get Book

Barthes by Tiphaine Samoyault Pdf

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a central figure in the thought of his time, but he was also something of an outsider. His father died in the First World War, he enjoyed his mother’s unfailing love, he spent long years in the sanatorium, and he was aware of his homosexuality from an early age: all this soon gave him a sense of his own difference. He experienced the great events of contemporary history from a distance. However, his life was caught up in the violent, intense sweep of the twentieth century, a century that he helped to make intelligible. This major new biography of Barthes, based on unpublished material never before explored (archives, journals and notebooks), sheds new light on his intellectual positions, his political commitments and his ideas, beliefs and desires. It details the many themes he discussed, the authors he defended, the myths he castigated, the polemics that made him famous and his acute ear for the languages of his day. It also underscores his remarkable ability to see which way the wind was blowing Ð and he is still a compelling author to read in part because his path-breaking explorations uncovered themes that continue to preoccupy us today. Barthes’s life story gives substance and cohesion to his career, which was guided by desire, perspicacity and an extreme sensitivity to the material from which the world is shaped Ð as well as a powerful refusal to accept any authoritarian discourse. By allowing thought to be based on imagination, he turned thinking into both an art and an adventure. This remarkable biography enables the reader to enter into Barthes’s life and grasp the shape of his existence, and thus understand the kind of writer he became and how he turned literature into life itself.

Author : Simon Glendinning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192803450

Get Book

Derrida: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Glendinning Pdf

"Simon Glendinning explores both the difficulty and significance of the work of Derrida, arguing that his challenging ideas make a significant contribution to philosophy."--P. [2] of cover.

Author : Catherine Belsey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191582948

Get Book

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Belsey Pdf

Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. Whilst the author discusses such well-known figures as Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan, she also draws pertinent examples from literature, art, film, and popular culture, unfolding the postructuralist account of what it means to be a human being.

Author : Jonathan Culler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199691340

Get Book

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler Pdf

Culler offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, looks at whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind deconstruction and semiotics.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0374522073

Get Book

Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes Pdf

This anthology by Roland Barthes is a reflection on his travels to Japan in the 1960s. In twenty-six short chapters he writes about his encounters with symbols of Japanese culture as diverse as pachinko, train stations, chopsticks, food, physiognomy, poetry, and gift-wrapping. He muses elegantly on, and with affection for, a system "altogether detached from our own." For Barthes, the sign here does not signify, and so offers liberation from the West's endless creation of meaning. Tokyo, like all major cities, has a center--the Imperial Palace--but in this case it is empty, "both forbidden and indifferent ... inhabited by an emperor whom no one ever sees." This emptiness of the sign is pursued throughout the book, and offers a stimulating alternative line of thought about the ways in which cultures are structured.

Author : Laura Seymour
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429818868

Get Book

Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author by Laura Seymour Pdf

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing "the birth of the reader," Barthes posits a new abstract notion of the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text’s possible meanings. The essay has become one of the most cited works in literary criticism and is a key text for any reader approaching reader response theory.