ISBN: 9780809028153 - a barthes reader (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Octavo. xxxviii, 495pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of essays.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. One chapter with discrete pencil checkmarks in margins, easy to miss at first glance. Some light scuffing to DJ. Collectible copy. Along with only a handful of other writers, Roland Barthes has set the direction of modern cultural and literary criticism. More than two dozen of his books have appeared in English translation, and several major American writers have heralded his essays as elegant and profound. This book includes his earliest essay (on Gide), his Inaugural Lecture at the Colle`ge de France, and "Deliberation," none of which had previously been published in English. It also offers a broad sampling from the most representative of his major works: On Racine, Writing Degree Zero, Mythologies, Critical Essays, The Pleasure of the Text, Sade/Fourier/Loyola, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, Image-Music-Text, A Lover's Discourse, The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies, and New Critical Essays. The texts are presented in their entirety, except in the case of a few of the lengthier ones, from which Sontag has chosen substantial key sections. All the selections are eloquently translated, and Sontag's introductory essay-itself an important contribution to Barthes studies-stands as a definitive evaluation and summation of the author and his work. Book.…