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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. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"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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