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A LOVER'S DISCOURSE - Fragments by ROLAND BARTHES
Category: Non-Fiction
"A Lover's Discourse," at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's "Werther "to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, "A Lov ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
In its search for authorities and examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, the book might be considered an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's.
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
Category: Photography
Examining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mi ...Show more
Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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 exposit ...Show more
Mourning Diary October 26, 1977 - September 15, 1979 by Roland Barthes
Category: Biography
"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 abo ...Show more
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
Category: Religion
'Mythologies' is a series of essays on the codings that command our daily life, from hairstyles in the film Julius Caesar to glossy photographs of gourmet cooking, to the cult of foam in detergents.
Mythologies by Roland Barthes; Annette Lavers (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction
'Mythologies' is a series of essays on the codings that command our daily life, from hairstyles in the film Julius Caesar to glossy photographs of gourmet cooking, to the cult of foam in detergents.
Roland Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
Category: Non-Fiction
'At last, with A Barthes Reader, we have a sort of Michelin guide to one of the most beguiling minds of our era. Smartly introduced by Susan Sontag, the Reader samples Barthes' achievement over three decades' - Newsweek A selection of works by the French intellectual Roland Barthes, including seminal es ...Show more
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland BARTHES
Category: Biography
The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as its author, Barthes plays both commentator and subject to reveal his tastes, habits, passions and regre ...Show more
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Professor Roland Barthes (Formerly, University of Paris)
Category: Non-Fiction
First published in 1977, "Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes "is the great literary theorist's most original work a brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to reveal Roland Barthes's tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets."
The Fashion System by Roland Barthes
Category: Fashion
Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines, he uncovered a system of meaning and subjected it for the first time to semantic analysis. The Fashion System, published ...Show more
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