Empire of Signs

Barthes, Roland / Richard Howard - translator

ISBN 10: 0809042223 / ISBN 13: 9780809042227

Published by Hill and Wang, New York, 1982

About this Item

xi + 110 pp, previous owner's 8 line inscription inked ffep, stated First American Edition. 19 b&w illustratins. 5.5" x 8.5" off-white cloth & gray papered boards, in illustrated clipped DJ with acetate protector. Binding tight, pages clean, unmarked, paper well-preserved.Little or no wear to exterior. Roland Gérard Barthes (1915-1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Size: Slim Octavo.

Seller Inventory # 010286

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Empire of Signs
• Publisher: Hill and Wang, New York
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809042223
• ISBN 13: 9780809042227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • ESSAYS
  • JAPANESE STUDIES

About this title

Synopsis

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.

About the Author

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the 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 College de France until his death in 1980.