A Barthes Reader

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Author: Roland Barthes

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0374521441

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Provides a broad sampling of the late French literary critic's most essential writings, including such works as Writing Degree Zero, Image-Music-Text, and New Critical Essays.

Alice in Bed

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Author: Susan Sontag

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 1993-06-01

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1466818727

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Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women; and about the triumphs and limitations of the imagination.

Michelet

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Author: Jules Michelet

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780520078260

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"For students interested in historiography, Michelet is one of the earliest truly successful literary readings of an historical text. . . . For all of us who are interested in this field it is a classic."--Lionel Gossman, author of Between History and Literature

Mythologies

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Author: Roland Barthes

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 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"--

Empire of Signs

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Author: Roland Barthes

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 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.

Camera Lucida

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Author: Roland Barthes

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 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.

Reading Boyishly

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Author: Carol Mavor

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 0822339625

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Study of nostalgic representations of the maternal, the home, and childhood in the literature and photographs of early-20th-century artists.

Album

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Author: Roland Barthes

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0231545886

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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.