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Mythologies

Mythologies
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-03-12
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0809071940

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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

Camera Lucida
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1981
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0374521344

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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, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris.


How to Live Together

How to Live Together
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231136161

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


The Preparation of the Novel

The Preparation of the Novel
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0231136153

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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

Empire of Signs
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1982
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780374522070

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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.


Bringing Out Roland Barthes

Bringing Out Roland Barthes
Author: D. A. Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 55
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520079489

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The author explores his identification with and attraction to the gay French critic, Roland Barthes, recounting his search for Barthes as a student in Paris and his sympathy for various themes in Barthes's work. Original.


The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes

The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes
Author: Patrizia Lombardo
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820346594

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Revolution must of necessity borrow, from what it wants to destroy, the very image of what it wants to possess.—Roland Barthes In the field of contemporary literary studies, Roland Barthes remains an inestimably influential figure—perhaps more influential in America than in his native France. The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes proposes a new method of viewing Barthes’s critical enterprise. Patrizia Lombardo, who studied with Barthes, rejects an absolutist or developmental assessment of his career. Insisting that his world can best be understood in terms of the paradoxes he perceived in the very activity of writing, Lombardo similarly sees in Barthes the crucial ambiguity that determines the modern writer—an irresistible attraction for something new, different, breaking with the past, yet also an unavoidable scorn for the contemporary world. Lombardo demonstrates that her mentor’s critical endeavor was not a linear progression of thought but was, as Barthes described his work, a romance, a “dance with a pen.”


Image-Music-Text

Image-Music-Text
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1977
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780374521363

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Essays on semiology


Elements of Semiology

Elements of Semiology
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1968
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780374521462

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"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extraction from linguistics of analytical concepts which we think a priori to be sufficiently general to start semiological research on its way. In assembling them, it is not presupposed that they will remain intact during the course of research; nor that semiology will always be forced to follow the linguistic model closely. We are merely suggesting and elucidating a terminology in the hope that it may enable an initial (albeit provisional) order to be introduced into the heterogeneous mass of significant facts. In fact what we purport to do is furnish a principle of classification of the questions. These elements of semiology will therefore be grouped under four main headings borrowed from structural linguistics: I. Language and Speech; II. Signified and Signifier; III. Syntagm and System; IV. Denotation and Connotation."--Roland Barthes, from his Introduction


A Lover's Discourse

A Lover's Discourse
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1978
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0809066890

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"Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is "A Lover's Discourse," a writing out of the discourse of love. This language primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse . . . Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in "A Lover's Discourse" by making love, in its most absurd and sentimental forms, an object of interest." Jonathan Culler