Elements of semiology / Roland Bartes ; translated by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith.

By: Barthes, Roland, 1915-1980 [author.]Contributor(s): Lavers, Annette [translator.] | Smith, Colin [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French New York : Hill and Wang, 1980 ©1964Edition: Sixth printingDescription: 111 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeUniform titles: Éléments de sémiologie. English Subject(s): SemanticsLOC classification: P123 .B37 1980Summary: "Roland Barthes, the West's master critic, has given us fertile rereading of such classic French authors as Racine and Balzac, brought to attention lesser-known writers like Fourier and Loyola, studied the mythologies and sign systems of modern life and fashion, explored cinema and music, examined culture-as-system in Japan, tried to delineate the erotics of reading and writing, and touched provocatively on numerous other topics. What he shares with the best of his colleagues is the assumption that criticism is an attitude, not an act. He brings his readers questions and speculations that are always engaging and expansive. It is just this temperament that makes him the latest heir of the tradition of French moralistes--Montaigne, Diderot, Voltaire, and, in his own day, Gide and Sartre--who used their cultural conscience and experimental brilliance to synthesize intellectual, ethical, and literary concerns."--Jacob Stockinger, San Francisco Review of Books.
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Translation of "Eléments de sémiologie".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107) and index.

"Roland Barthes, the West's master critic, has given us fertile rereading of such classic French authors as Racine and Balzac, brought to attention lesser-known writers like Fourier and Loyola, studied the mythologies and sign systems of modern life and fashion, explored cinema and music, examined culture-as-system in Japan, tried to delineate the erotics of reading and writing, and touched provocatively on numerous other topics. What he shares with the best of his colleagues is the assumption that criticism is an attitude, not an act. He brings his readers questions and speculations that are always engaging and expansive. It is just this temperament that makes him the latest heir of the tradition of French moralistes--Montaigne, Diderot, Voltaire, and, in his own day, Gide and Sartre--who used their cultural conscience and experimental brilliance to synthesize intellectual, ethical, and literary concerns."--Jacob Stockinger, San Francisco Review of Books.

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