Roland Barthes

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Stanford University Press, 1991 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 255 pages
This book provides a lively introduction to the work of Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth century's most important literary and cultural theorists. The book covers all aspects of Barthes's writings including his work on literary theory, mass communications, the theatre and politics. Moriarty argues that Barthes's writing must not be seen as an unchanging body of thought, and that we should study his ideas in the contexts within which they were formulated, debated and developed.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Sign and Ideology
15
Myths
19
Writing and Responsibility
31
Barthes on Theatre
49
The Structuralist Activity
53
The Ethnography of Tragedy
59
Barthes as Semiologist
73
The Body
186
Image and Real ix
195
Biographical Appendix
209
1
224
19
225
31
227
44
230
59
231

Narrative Analysis
91
Beyond the Sign
103
The PostStructural Analysis of Narrative
117
Text and its Pleasures
143
Late Barthes
155
Affirming the Imaginary
169
91
239
Bibliography
241
117
248
186
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195
253
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About the author (1991)

Michael Moriarty is also the author of Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France, (Cambridge University Press, 1988).

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