Barthes: A Very Short Introduction - Culler, Jonathan

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Roland Barthes was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world intelligible'. He has a multifaceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing literature which gives the reader a creative role. Culler elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of this 'public experimenter' and describes the many projects which Barthes explored and which helped to change the way we think about a range of cultural phenomena, from literature, fashion, wrestling, and advertising to notions of the self, of history, and of nature. 
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Soft cover
Oxford University Press
2002
New York, NY