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"The Language of Fashion" von Roland Barthes ist eine Sammlung von Essays und Artikeln, die sich mit der semiotischen Analyse der Mode beschäftigen. Barthes, ein führender französischer Theoretiker, untersucht in diesem Werk, wie Mode...

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...

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture,...

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted...

In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes¿s career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and...

Unpublished correspondence and texts. This volume provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. Translated by Jody Gladding. *Also appeared in Nov/Dec Buyer's Notes* von Barthes, Roland

"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...

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. von Barthes, Roland

An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period of three...

"Über mich selbst" ist eine introspektive Arbeit des französischen Philosophen und Literaturkritikers Roland Barthes. In diesem Buch untersucht er verschiedene Aspekte seiner eigenen Identität, indem er seine persönlichen Erfahrungen,...

"The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation" ist eine Sammlung von Essays des französischen Philosophen und Literaturkritikers Roland Barthes. In diesem Werk untersucht Barthes die Rolle von Musik,...