A Barthes Reader - Softcover

Barthes, Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809028158 ISBN 13: 9780809028153

Publisher: Hill & Wang, 1982

Synopsis

Book by Barthes, Roland

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'A Barthes Reader' gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontag's prefatory essay is one of her finest acts of criticism, informed by intellectual sympathy and a sure sense of the contours of the mind she is describing'.

About the Author:

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the Collège de France until his death in 1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0809028158
• ISBN 13: 9780809028153
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 495