| Empire of Signs Contributor(s): Barthes, Roland (Author), Howard, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374522073 ISBN-13: 9780374522070 Publisher: Hill & Wang OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1983 Annotation: With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - History | Asia - Japan - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese |
| Dewey: 952 |
| LCCN: 82011868 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.30 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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.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. |