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Barthes : a very short introduction

Author: Jonathan D Culler
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series: Very short introductions.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Roland Barthes (1915-80) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world intelligible'. He has a multifaceted 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 literature which gives the reader a  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Roland Barthes; Roland Barthes
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jonathan D Culler
ISBN: 0192801597 9780192801593
OCLC Number: 48417246
Description: 144 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Contents: Man of parts. --
Literary historian. --
Mythologist. --
Critic. --
Polemicist. --
Semiologist. --
Structuralist. --
Hedonist. --
Writer. --
Man of letters. --
Barthes after Barthes.
Series Title: Very short introductions.
Other Titles: Roland Barthes
Responsibility: Jonathan Culler.
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"Roland Barthes (1915-80) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world intelligible'. He has a multifaceted 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 literature which gives the reader a creative role." "He called for 'the death of the author', urging that we study not writers but texts, yet he himself published idiosyncratic books rightly celebrated as imaginative products of a personal vision." "Jonathan Culler elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of this 'public experimenter' and describes the many projects which Barthes explored."--BOOK JACKET.

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