Roland Barthes Contributor(s): Barthes, Roland (Author), Howard, Richard (Translator), Phillips, Adam (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0374251460 ISBN-13: 9780374251468 Publisher: Hill & Wang OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.40 lbs) 186 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Howard, Richard: - Richard Howard is a poet, scholar, teacher, critic, and translator. Paper Trail is published simultaneously by FSG with Howard's Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003. He teaches at Columbia University and is poetry editor of The Paris Review.Phillips, Adam: - Adam Phillips is one of the foremost psychoanalysts practicing in the world today, and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of many books, including On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; and On Balance. He is also coauthor, with the historian Barbara Taylor, of On Kindness.Barthes, Roland: - Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French cultural and literary critic, whose clever and lyrical writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading movements of the twentieth century. Barthes had a cult following and published seventeen books, including Camera Lucida, Mythologies, and A Lover's Discourse. |