The Empire of Signs - Couverture souple

Barthes, Roland

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374522073 ISBN 13 : 9780374522070

Editeur : Anchor Books, 1983

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Roland Barthes changed the way a generation read. A cultural commentator before his time, his careful if playful analysis of texts revolutionised the way we comprehend cultural products. Both critic and literary essayist, his writings continue to provoke. His best known work includes Mythologies, Camera Lucida, Image-Music-Text, The Empire of Signs, A Lover's Discourse, Writing Degree Zero, S/Z and The Fashion System.

Translated by Andy Stafford, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, University of Leeds and edited by Andy Stafford and Michael Carter, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney.

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society.

Richard Howard teaches in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, USA. He has also translated works by Barthes, Foucault and Todorov.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anchor Books
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374522073
• ISBN 13: 9780374522070
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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• Personne responsable: non disponible