Roland Barthes Retroactively: Reading the College de France Lectures - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748636927 ISBN 13 : 9780748636921

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In January 1977 Roland Barthes became professor of literary semiology at the Collège de France, where he taught for three years until his death in March 1980. His lectures from those years, published more than two decades after his death, represent the final intellectual journey of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In his late teaching, Barthes continuously challenged his previous work, seeking out new ways of reading and living. In his idiosyncratic style, he sketched the outlines of a critical and ethical project that is still thought- provoking and relevant today.Taking the Collège de France lectures as a starting point, leading specialists assess Barthes's legacy and the constituent fantasies that haunted his entire oeuvre. This volume reveals the untimely force of Barthes's thinking, whereby looking back often means discovering unexpected possibilities for contemporary literary and cultural studies.This is also published as a Special Issue of the journal Paragraph.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jürgen Pieters teaches Literary Theory at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Moments of Negotiation. The New Historicism of Stephen Greenblatt (Amsterdam University Press, 2001) and Speaking With the Dead: Explorations in Literature and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).

Kris Pint is Lecturer in Cultural and Literary Theory at the Department ofArchitecture and Fine Arts of the Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg,Belgium.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748636927
• ISBN 13: 9780748636921
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
• Éditeur: Pieters Jürgen, Pint Kris
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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