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Provides a broad sampling of the late French literary critic's most essential writings, including such works as Writing Degree Zero, Image-Music-Text, and New Critical Essays

Product Description: The essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include Mythologies and Camera Lucida. This work in the Barthes canon offers a discussion of the language of literary criticism.

This is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural and intellectual challenge to those who believe in the clarity, flexibility and neutrality of language, couched in Barthes' own inimitable and provocative style.

Product Description: Aggressively elegant, viscerally beautiful, Cy Twombly's work is, in the words of exhibition curator and contributing writer Julie Sylvester, "fundamentally subjective, truthful, and uncompromising." His work finds its most personal expression in his intimately sized drawings and paintings on paper...read more

Product Description: In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy Graham, the flooding of the Seine—and other shared events and aspects of everyday experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An analysis of the culture of Japan includes discussions of haiku, cooking, Zen Buddhism, the custom of bowing, and the layout of cities

Product Description: Ces Essais critiques sont un pan essentiel de la réflexion de Roland Barthes sur le théâtre et la littérature. Des auteurs classiques, comme Voltaire ou Baudelaire, y rencontrent des modernes, comme Queneau ou Robbe-Grillet ; mais il ne s’agit ni d’un palmarès ni d’une galerie d’exemples : du combat brechtien à « l’activité structuraliste », en passant par la naissance du « nouveau roman », se dessine ici le tracé d’une des expériences intellectuelles exemplaires de notre époque, qui est la découverte et l’exploration – à travers les domaines privilégiés de l’écriture littéraire et du langage théâtral – de cet inépuisable empire des signes, où la pensée moderne mesure son espace et son pouvoir...read more

Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines, he uncovered a system of meaning and subjected it for the first time to semantic analysis. "The Fashion System", published in France in 1967, is bold and imaginative. In his endeavour to confine his love, outrage and passion for fashion to a system, Barthes created a work of literature that is witty, humane, personal and enormously stimulating.