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Roland Barthes

Graham Allen
Roland Barthes Book PDF

Author : Graham Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134503407

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Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media. This book prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates, including: *existentialism and Marxism *semiology, or the 'language of signs' *structuralism and narrative analysis *post-structuralism, deconstruction and 'the death of the author' *theories of the text and intertextuality. Tracing his engagement with other key thinkers such as Sartre, Saussure, Derrida and Kristeva, this volume offers a clear picture of Barthes work in-context. The in-depth understanding of Barthes offered by this guide is essential to anyone reading contemporary critical theory.

Mythologies

Roland Barthes
Mythologies Book PDF

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780809071944

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"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--

Camera Lucida

Roland Barthes
Camera Lucida Book PDF

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1784876011

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Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes Pdf

Barthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. This is a special Vintage Design Edition, with fold-out cover and stunning photography throughout. 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. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. He was grieving for his mother at the time of writing. Strikingly personal, yet one of the most important early academic works on photography, Camera Lucida remains essential reading for anyone interested in the power of images. 'Effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader' Guardian

Roland Barthes and Film

Patrick ffrench
Roland Barthes and Film Book PDF

Author : Patrick ffrench
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350191372

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Roland Barthes and Film by Patrick ffrench Pdf

Suspicious of what he called the spectator's “sticky” adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a hypnotic trance, the philosopher warned, an audience can become susceptible to ideology and “myth”. In this book, Patrick Ffrench explains that although Barthes was wary of film, he engaged deeply with it. Barthes' thought was, Ffrench argues, punctuated by the experience of watching films – and likewise his philosophy of photography, culture, semiotics, ethics and theatricality have been immensely important in film theory. Focusing particularly on the essays 'The Third Meaning' and 'On Leaving the Cinema' and the acclaimed book Camera Lucida, Ffrench examines Barthes' writing and traces a persistent interest in films and directors, from Fellini and Antonioni, to Eisenstein, the Marx Brothers and Hitchcock. Ffrench explains that although Barthes found pleasure in “leaving the cinema” – disconnecting from its dangerous allure by a literal exit or by forcefully breaking the trance – he found value in returning to the screen anew. Barthes delved beneath the pull of progressing narrative and the moving image by becoming attentive to space and material aesthetics. This book presents an invaluable reassessment of one of the most original and subtle thinkers of the twentieth-century: a figure indebted to the movies.

The Rustle of Language

Roland Barthes
The Rustle of Language Book PDF

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520066294

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The Rustle of Language by Roland Barthes Pdf

The Rustle of Language is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching—the pleasure of the text—in an authoritative translation by Richard Howard.

Album

Roland Barthes
Album Book PDF

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231545884

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Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection behind the composition of his works, as well as a rich archive of epistolary friendships, spanning half a century, among the leading intellectuals of the day. Barthes was one of the great observers of language and culture, and Album shows him in his element, immersed in heady French intellectual culture and the daily struggles to maintain a writing life. Barthes's correspondents include Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marthe Robert, and Jean Starobinski, among others. The book also features documents, letters, and postcards reproduced in facsimile; unpublished material; and notes and transcripts from his seminars. The first English-language publication of Barthes's letters, Album is a comprehensive testimony to one of the most influential critics and philosophers of the twentieth century and the world of letters in which he lived and breathed.

The Fashion System

Roland Barthes
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Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990-07-25
Category : Design
ISBN : 0520071778

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On semiotics, fashion and philosophy

Roland Barthes

Michael Moriarty
Roland Barthes Book PDF

Author : Michael Moriarty
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745680484

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Roland Barthes by Michael Moriarty Pdf

This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all aspects of Barthes's writings including his work on literary theory, mass communications, the theatre and politics. Moriarty argues that Barthes's writing must not be seen as an unchanging body of thought, and that we should study his ideas in the contexts within which they were formulated, debated and developed.

Critical Essays

Roland Barthes
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Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0810105896

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Critical Essays by Roland Barthes Pdf

The essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan).

Roland Barthes at the Collège de France

Lucy O'Meara
Roland Barthes at the Coll ge de France Book PDF

Author : Lucy O'Meara
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781388273

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Roland Barthes at the Collège de France by Lucy O'Meara Pdf

A full-length account of Barthes' lecture courses given in Paris,1977-80, placing his teaching within institutional, intellectual and personal contexts. Analysing texts and recordings of the four lectures together with his 1970s output, it brings together all the strands of Barthes' activity as writer, teacher and public intellectual.

How to Live Together

Roland Barthes
How to Live Together Book PDF

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231136167

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How to Live Together by Roland Barthes Pdf

"Notes for a lecture course and seminar at Collaege de France (1976-1977)"-- T.p

Mourning Diary

Roland Barthes
Mourning Diary Book PDF

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374533113

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Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes Pdf

"In the sentence ‘She's no longer suffering,' to what, to whom does ‘she' refer? What does that present tense mean?" —Roland Barthes, from his diary The day after his mother's death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. For nearly two years, the legendary French theorist wrote about a solitude new to him; about the ebb and flow of sadness; about the slow pace of mourning, and life reclaimed through writing. Named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by The New York Times and one of the Best Books of 2010 by Slate and The Times Literary Supplement, Mourning Diary is a major discovery in Roland Barthes's work: a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his life, as well as a unique study of grief—intimate, deeply moving, and universal.

The Preparation of the Novel

Roland Barthes
The Preparation of the Novel Book PDF

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231136150

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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 write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a unique pedagogical experiment: he combined teaching and writing to "simulate" the trial of novel-writing, exploring every step of the creative process along the way. Barthes's lectures move from the desire to write to the actual decision making, planning, and material act of producing a novel. He meets the difficulty of transitioning from short, concise notations (exemplified by his favorite literary form, haiku) to longer, uninterrupted flows of narrative, and he encounters a number of setbacks. Barthes takes solace in a diverse group of writers, including Dante, whose La Vita Nuova was similarly inspired by the death of a loved one, and he turns to classical philosophy, Taoism, and the works of François-René Chateaubriand, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust. This book uniquely includes eight elliptical plans for Barthes's unwritten novel, which he titled Vita Nova, and lecture notes that sketch the critic's views on photography. Following on The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977-1978) and a third forthcoming collection of Barthes lectures, this volume provides an intensely personal account of the labor and love of writing.

Empire of Signs

Roland Barthes
Empire of Signs Book PDF

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0374522073

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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.

Roland Barthes

Rick Rylance
Roland Barthes Book PDF

Author : Rick Rylance
Publisher : Harvester/Wheatsheaf
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Critics
ISBN : 0745007228

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Roland Barthes by Rick Rylance Pdf

This comprehensive introductory study considers the full range of Barthes' work - from his early structuralist phase, through his post-structuralist explorations of "Text", to his late writings. In looking at the late work, often of an autobiographical or personal-lyrical nature, Rylance examines the relationship between the critical and the personal, as well as Barthes' relation to developments in feminism and postmodernism. Throughout, Barthes' writings are presented as paradigmatic of many of the major shifts in intellectual opinion in the post-war period. The book is part of a series reflecting the broad spectrum of modern European and American theory. It focuses on those cultural theorists who have had the most significant impact in the 20th century. The series aims to show how modern thinkers differ in their aproaches to interpreting culture, texts, society, language, history, gender and social life. Designed to be accessible to students, each volume in the series the thought and work of often difficult theorists in a clear and informative way, balancing exposition and critique.