BOOKS by Roland Barthes

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1	Mythologies more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist In MYTHOLOGIES, Roland Barthes's most popular work, he examines common signs or "myths," and how they mask larger meanings and realities within French society. The collection contains a number of short pieces on popular culture, politics, film, and more, written for the leftist Les Lettres Nouvelles in the mid-1950s; the content epitomizes classic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography more books like this by Roland Barthes add to wishlist 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 exposition of his own mind. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.04! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Image Music Text more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist These essays include the influential "The Death of the Author." see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.37! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Lover's Discourse Fragments more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist Divided into thematic sections, this discussion of love--its language, characteristics, and thought processes of those involved--is thought to be based on Barthes's own homosexual love. With various literary, artistic, and cultural references, the work became hugely popular in France within months of its 1977 publication. Original French title: ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $5.59! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Pleasure of the Text more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist First published in France, as LE PLAISIR DU TEXTE (1973). see all copies from $3.30! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	S/Z: An Essay more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (Preface by), Richard Miller (Translator) add to wishlist Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine." see all copies from $5.25! new only from $7.98! \| SVS
7	Elements of semiology more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist "In his "Course in General Linguistics," first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex ... see all copies from $2.60! new only from $4.97! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Empire of signs more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.53! new only from $3.53! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A Barthes Reader more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist 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 decades. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Writing degree zero more books like this by Roland Barthes add to wishlist Barthes's first book and one of his most famous, WRITING DEGREE ZERO addresses the French avant-garde with a critique of modernist French literature and its use of language. see all copies from $4.84! new only from $5.09! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977-1978) more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes, Rosalind E Krauss (Translator), Denis Hollier (Translator) add to wishlist "I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm." With these words, Roland Barthes describes a concept that profoundly shaped his work and was the subject of a landmark series of lectures delivered in 1978 at the College de France, just two years before his death. Not published ... see all copies from $6.26! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Critical Essays more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist These essays, written in the 1950s and '60s, pertain to the cultural assumptions one takes for granted. Some focus on the "anti-novels" of Robbe-Grillet and others, and the theater of Bertolt Brecht. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $23.42! \| first editions \| SVS
13	S/Z more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthes's system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which a Balzac novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically in order to uncover layers of unsuspected meanings and connotations. In the process, Barthes reveals the immeasurably fecund nature of language. His interpretation of language and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
14	Grain of the Voice more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
15 view cover	The fashion system more books like this by Roland Barthes add to wishlist The object of this inquiry is the structural analysis of women's clothing as currently described by Fashion magazines: its method was originally inspired by the general science of signs postulated by Saussure under the name semiology. see all copies from $9.95! new only from $20.38! \| first editions
16 view cover	Sade/Fourier/Loyola more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist A treatise on the nature of philosophical creation. Barthes examines the parallel impulses of Loyola, the Jesuit saint, Sade, the renowned and sometimes pornographic libertine philosopher, and Fourier, the utopian theorist. All three, he makes clear, have been founders of languages - Loyola the language of divine address: Sade, the language of ... see all copies from $9.45! new only from $31.92! \| first editions
17 view cover	Roland Barthes more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist A kind of autobiography, both personal and critical, Roland Barthes is an account of that part of Barthes's life - his tastes, his childhood, his body, his education, his passions and regrets - that went into his work. `Readers have come to expect nothing less than brilliance from France's most important writer-intellectual since Sartre. What they ... see all copies from $5.46! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Mythologies Essais by Roland Barthes add to wishlist see all copies from $2.55!
19 view cover	Criticism and truth more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include "Mythologies" and "Camera Lucida". "Criticism and Truth" is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural, linguistic and intellectual ... see all copies from $6.98! new only from $19.99! \| SVS
20 view cover	Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist Essays on cultural phenomena and assumptions, including musings on the Eiffel Tower and other Parisian landmarks. see all copies from $3.85! new only from $5.48! \| first editions \| SVS
21	La Chambre Claire: Note Sur La Photographie more books like this by Roland Barthes add to wishlist see all copies from $24.92! new only from $79.53!
22 view cover	Public Photographic Spaces: Propaganda Exhibitions from Pressa to the Family of Man, 1928-55 more books like this by Roland Barthes add to wishlist This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; the trajectory of utopian architectural-photographic space and from post-Revolutionary Russia to ... see all copies from $64.00! new only from $92.97!
23 view cover	The rustle of language more books like this by Roland Barthes add to wishlist Essays discuss science, mythology, language, style, history, semiotics, literature, and meaning. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.17! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling more books like this by Nicholas Sammond (Editor), Nicholas Sammond (Editor), Roland Barthes (Contributions by) add to wishlist The antagonists--oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine critical rigor with a deep appreciation of ... see all copies from $6.35! new only from $31.83!
25 view cover	The Language of Fashion by Professor Roland Barthes, Andy Stafford (Translator), Michael Carter (Editor) add to wishlist Roland Barthes, widely regarded as one of the most subtle and perceptive critics of the 20th Century, was particularly fascinated by fashion and clothing. The Language of Fashion brings together all Barthes' untranslated writings on fashion. The Language of Fashion presents a set of remarkable essays, revealing the breadth and insight of Barthes' ... see all copies from $13.90! new only from $13.90! \| SVS

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