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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	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 $5.37! new only from $5.37! \| first editions \| SVS
3	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
4	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
5	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
6	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 $2.61! new only from $4.97! \| first editions \| SVS
7	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
8	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 $8.96! \| first editions \| SVS
9	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
10	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
11	Grain of the Voice more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
12	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
13 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
14 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
15 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
16	Literary Terms: A Dictionary more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (Translator), Karl E Beckson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
17 view cover	On Racine more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist This work of literary criticism, exemplary of the French New Criticism, applies linguistics, psychoanalysis, and other theories to the drama of 17th-century French playwright Jean Racine. The three essays were released during a time of intense discussion between the traditional French university system and the New Critics like Barthes, who ... see all copies from $7.10! first editions
18 view cover	La Camara Lucida more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist Este libro no es un tratado sobre la fotografia como arte, ni mucho menos un historia sobre el tema. Barthes rehuye los senderos mas trillados y se lanza a una especie de desciframiento del signo expresivo, del objeto artistico. En este caso toma punto de partida unas cuantas fotografias, con el fin de descubrir y, a partir de ahi, deducir. El ... see all copies from $40.76! new only from $40.76!
19	La Preparacion de La Novela more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist see all copies from $28.48! new only from $28.49! \| SVS
20	Comment Vivre Ensemble by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist see all copies from $77.50! new only from $77.50!
21 view cover	Critica y Verdad more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist see all copies from $40.67! new only from $40.67!
22 view cover	El Placer del Texto y Leccion Inaugural: de la Catedra de Semiologia Literaria del College de France more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist see all copies from $37.45! new only from $37.45!
23	The Pleasures of the Text more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist `Taken together, The Pleasure of the Text and S/Z force us to notice how much of the most interesting thought today is being carried forward in what we used to call `literary criticism,' and how important Barthes' own contribution to redefinition of the field has been.' The New York Times Book Review . What is it we do when we enjoy a text? What ... see all copies from $32.20!

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