Title:
Barthes : a very short introduction / Jonathan Culler.
Author:
Culler, Jonathan D.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Call Number:
P85 .B33 C83 2002
Abstract:
"Roland Barthes (1915-80) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world intelligible'. He has a multifaceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing literature which gives the reader a creative role." "He called for 'the death of the author', urging that we study not writers but texts, yet he himself published idiosyncratic books rightly celebrated as imaginative products of a personal vision." "Jonathan Culler elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of this 'public experimenter' and describes the many projects which Barthes explored."--BOOK JACKET.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2002514397-t.html
ISBN:
9780192801593
Series:
Very short introductions
Very short introductions.
Physical Description:
144 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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Contents:
Man of parts. -- Literary historian. -- Mythologist. -- Critic. -- Polemicist. -- Semiologist. -- Structuralist. -- Hedonist. -- Writer. -- Man of letters. -- Barthes after Barthes.
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