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A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory

English

By (author): Chris Turner Roland Barthes

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
 
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovatoroften as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to anotherhe 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 Frances preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980.
 
The greater part of Barthess 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. In volume one, A Very Fine Gift, Barthes attempts to frame his lifelong curiosities in theoretical form, from his early musings on the sociology of literature through his high period of structuralism to his later reflections on Derrida. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 5 x 8mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781803092751

About Chris TurnerRoland Barthes

Roland Barthes (191580) was a professor at the Collège de France until his death. His books include Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography; Image Music Text; and A Lovers Discourse: Fragments. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham England. He has translated Jean-Paul Sartres The Aftermath of War Portraits and Critical Essays and André Gorzs Ecologica and The Immaterial all published by Seagull Books.

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