Image Music Text

Barthes, Roland

ISBN 10: 0809013878 / ISBN 13: 9780809013876

Published by Hill & Wang, New York, 1978

About this Item

220 pp, translator's note; The Photographuic Message; Rhetoric of the Images; the Third Meaning; Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein; Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives; The Struggle with the Angel; The Death of the Author; Musica Pracitica; From Work to Text; Change the Object Itself; Lesson in Writing; The Grain of the Voice; Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers; sources, index. Essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath: Third Printing, 1978. "These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included." Crease to top fore-edge corner page 157 with pencilled underlining and marginalia pages 142-148, else, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no other underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Paperback. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Image Music Text
• Publisher: Hill & Wang, New York
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809013878
• ISBN 13: 9780809013876
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Later Printing.
• Condition: Very Good + +
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • LITERARY CRITICISM

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Synopsis

These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included.

Review

Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought.