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The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation

The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation

1991 ·
·3.93·91 Ratings ·320 Pages
“ When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. ” ― Dalai Lama
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    1990·
    ·3.55·214 Ratings
    In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine—the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion—Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlyin
  • The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

    1997·
    ·3.88·160 Ratings
    In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy Gr
  • Jealousy & In the Labyrinth

    1994·
    ·3.87·617 Ratings
    Here, in one volume, are two remarkable novels by the chief spokesman of the so-called “new novel” which has caused such discussion and aroused such controversy. “Jealousy,” said the New York Times Book Review “is a technical masterpiece, impecc
  • S/Z: An Essay

    1975·
    ·3.99·3,129 Ratings
    This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story Sarrasine.
  • The Semiotic Challenge

    1994·
    ·3.72·72 Ratings
    Most of these essays were written between 1963 and 1973 and constitute either the elements of the semiotic discipline or the analysis of texts—ranging from the Bible to advertising—in order to determine the site of possible meanings in narratives. Int
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    1983·
    ·3.93·1,245 Ratings
    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.
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    2010·
    ·4.03·745 Ratings
    A major discovery: The lost diary of a great mind—and an intimate, deeply moving study of griefThe day after his mother's death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his
  • A Barthes Reader

    1983·
    ·4.05·174 Ratings
    A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell
  • Image-Music-Text

    1993·
    ·4.1·2,746 Ratings
    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 mov
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