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Beschreibung
A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Â Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovatorâoften as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to anotherâhe first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at Franceâs preeminent CollÃge de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. Â The greater part of Barthesâs published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume three, Masculine, Feminine, Neuter, consists of his writing on literature, covering his peers and influences, writers in French and other languages, contemporary and historical writers, and world literature.Â
A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Â Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovatorâoften as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to anotherâhe first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at Franceâs preeminent CollÃge de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980. Â The greater part of Barthesâs published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. Volume three, Masculine, Feminine, Neuter, consists of his writing on literature, covering his peers and influences, writers in French and other languages, contemporary and historical writers, and world literature.Â
Über den Autor
Roland Barthes (1915­-80) was one of the leading French writers, philosophers, and critics of the twentieth century. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781803092768
ISBN-10: 1803092769
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barthes, Roland
Redaktion: Turner, Chris
Übersetzung: Turner, Chris
Hersteller: Seagull Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 202 x 131 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Roland Barthes
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2023
Gewicht: 0,195 kg
Artikel-ID: 126746722