Author : D. A. Miller
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520079489
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.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809066890
"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
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0374521344
"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.
Author : Philip Watts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190277556
Roland Barthes' Cinema offers the first systematic English-language critical treatment of Barthes' writing on cinema, reassessing the relevance of his work for a new generation of readers and filmgoers.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374533113
"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.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374522070
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 : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0809071940
"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Author : D. A. Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674669901
In Place for Us, D. A. Miller probes what all the jokes laugh off: the embarrassingly mutual affinity between a "general" cultural form and the despised "minority" that was in fact that form's implicit audience.
Author : Graham Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134503415
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.
Author : Martin McQuillan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230343899
Roland Barthes was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, but why should the reader of today, or tomorrow, be concerned with him? Martin McQuillan provides a fresh perspective on Barthes, addressing his political and institutional inheritance and considering his work as the origins of a critical cultural studies. This stimulating study: - Provides a biographical consideration of Barthes' writing - Offers an extended reading of his 1957 text Mythologies as a text for our own time, drawing Barthes' work into a historical relation to the present - Examines his connection to what we call cultural studies - Features an annotated bibliography of Barthes' published work Thought-provoking and insightful, Roland Barthes is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the writings of this key theorist and his continuing relevance in our post-9/11 world.
