| Simply a Particular Contemporary: Interviews, 1970-79: Essays and Interviews, Volume 5 Contributor(s): Barthes, Roland (Author), Turner, Chris (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0857422405 ISBN-13: 9780857422408 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 814 |
| Series: French List |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.18" W x 8.33" (0.56 lbs) 124 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 five, 'Simply a Particular Contemporary' Interviews, with four interviews Barthes conducted between 1970 and 1979, varying widely in style and content. |
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. |