In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion--Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion[...]

This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth centurya s most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all aspects of Barthesa s writings including his work on literary theory, mass communications, the theatre and politics. Moriarty ar[...]

* A rare and unique publication of Roland Barthes' notebooks from his travels in China. * The notebooks document Barthes thoughts during his 1974 visit to China, just as the last campaign of the Cultural Revolution was getting underway.[...]

This book brings together the great majority of Barthes's interviews that originally appeared in French in "Le Figaro Litteraire, Cahiers du Cinema, France-Observateur, L'Express," and elsewhere. Barthes replied to questions--on the cinema, on his own works, on fashion, writing, and criticism--in hi[...]

In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Jean-Michel Rabate and nineteen contributors ex[...]

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". "Criticism and Truth" is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It[...]

Roland Barthes - the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first [...]

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is one of France's most important writers and theorists of the second half of the twentieth century. His volumes of essays have been translated into many languages. His work is hugely influential in the fields of semiotics, structuralism and numerous areas of the humanitie[...]

Roland Barthes, widely regarded as one of the most subtle and perceptive critics of the 20th Century, was particularly fascinated by fashion and clothing. The Language of Fashion brings together all Barthes' untranslated writings on fashion.The Language of Fashion presents a set of remarkable essays[...]

Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing "the birth of the reader," Barthes posits [...]

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisPublie en 1953 aux editions du Seuil, Le Degre zero de l'ecriture est le premier livre de Roland Barthes (1915-1980), qui ne s'etait fait connaitre jusqu'alors que par des articles. A sa sortie, le livre recut un accueil plutot favorabl[...]