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A LOVER'S DISCOURSE - Fragments by ROLAND BARTHES
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
"A Lover's Discourse," at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's "Werther "to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, "A Lov ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Vintage Classics
In its search for authorities and examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, the book might be considered an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's.
A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory by Roland Barthes
45.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: SB-The French List
Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulat ...Show more
A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory by Roland Barthes; Chris Turner (Translator)
27.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The\French List Ser.
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 innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained an aud ...Show more
Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts by Roland Barthes
66.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesth ...Show more
Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposit ...Show more
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
22.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good
Examining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mi ...Show more
Empire of Signs by BARTHES ROLAND (TRANS) HOWARD RICHARD
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Category: Culture & Ideas
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.
Incidents by Roland Barthes
41.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The French List
French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in twentieth-century literary thought, and some of his best-known works, like "S/Z", speak directly to the essential and individual relationship between a reader and a literary te ...Show more
"Masculine, Feminine, Neuter" and Other Writings on Literature: Essays and Interviews, Volume 3 by Roland Barthes
38.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: SB-The French List
Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Barthes. This season they ll bring the five-volume set to completion with the publication of " Masculine, Feminine, Neuter "and" Signs and Images." " Masculine ...Show more
Mythologies by Roland Barthes; Annette Lavers (Translator)
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'Mythologies' is a series of essays on the codings that command our daily life, from hairstyles in the film Julius Caesar to glossy photographs of gourmet cooking, to the cult of foam in detergents.
Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation by Professor Roland Barthes (Formerly, University of Paris)
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Category: Culture & Ideas
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to "Mythologies." There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way reader ...Show more