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A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory: Essays and Interviews, Volume 1
Contributor(s): Barthes, Roland (Author), Turner, Chris (Translator)
ISBN: 085742226X     ISBN-13: 9780857422262
Publisher: Seagull Books
OUR PRICE:   $18.90  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: September 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
Dewey: 410.92
Series: French List
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 8" (0.70 lbs) 168 pages
 
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Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France's preeminent Coll ge de France, where he chose to style himself as professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980.

The greater part of Barthes's published writings have been available to a French audience since 2002, but here, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English. Divided into five themed volumes, readers are presented in volume one, 'A Very Fine Gift' and Other Writings on Theory, with Barthes's attempts to frame his lifelong curiosities in theoretical form, from his early musings on the sociology of literature through his high period of structuralism to his later reflections on Derrida.

Contributor Bio(s): Turner, Chris: -

Chris Turner is a translator and writer living in Birmingham, UK. He has translated more than eighty books from French and German.

Barthes, Roland: - Roland Barthes (1915-80) was a professor at the Collège de France until his death. His books include Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography; Image, Music, Text; and A Lover's Discourse: Fragments.