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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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; Chris Turner (Translator)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory by Roland Barthes
$43.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Criticism and Truth by Roland Barthes
$21.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Criticism and Truth is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon.
Empire of Signs by BARTHES ROLAND (TRANS) HOWARD RICHARD
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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.
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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 a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containin ...Show more
Image Music Text by BARTHES ROLAND
$37.50 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 of Narrative and The Death of the Author are also included.
Image Music Text by Roland Barthes
$21.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
ESSAYS SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN HEATH 'Image-Music-Text' brings together major essays by Roland Barthes on the structural analysis of narrative and on issues in literary theory, on the semiotics of photograph and film, on the practice of music and voice. Throughout the volume runs a constant m ...Show more
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Vintage classics
A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself.
Mythologies by Roland Barthes; Annette Lavers (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'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.