Barthes Mythologies Today

Author : Pete Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136743723
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barthes' Mythologies Today written by Pete Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading academics in media, English, education, and cultural studies here are tasked with identifying the "new mythologies" some fifty or so years on from Barthes’ original interventions. The contributions in this volume, then, are readings of contemporary culture, each engaging with a cultural event, practice, or text as mythological. These readings are then contextualized by an introduction which reflects on the ‘how’ of these engaging responses and an "essay at the back of the book" which replaces Myth Today with a reflection on the contemporary provenance of both Barthes and his most famous book. Thus the book is at least two things at once whichever way you look: a ‘new’ Mythologies and a book about Barthes’ legacy, an exploration of the place of theory in critical writing, and a book about contemporary culture.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809071940
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mythologies written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809071940
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mythologies written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--

Author : Pete Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136743790
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barthes' Mythologies Today written by Pete Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading academics in media, English, education, and cultural studies here are tasked with identifying the "new mythologies" some fifty or so years on from Barthes’ original interventions. The contributions in this volume, then, are readings of contemporary culture, each engaging with a cultural event, practice, or text as mythological. These readings are then contextualized by an introduction which reflects on the ‘how’ of these engaging responses and an "essay at the back of the book" which replaces Myth Today with a reflection on the contemporary provenance of both Barthes and his most famous book. Thus the book is at least two things at once whichever way you look: a ‘new’ Mythologies and a book about Barthes’ legacy, an exploration of the place of theory in critical writing, and a book about contemporary culture.

Author : Andy Stafford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roland Barthes, Phenomenon and Myth written by Andy Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work sets out to find Barthes somewhere in the dialogue between the writer and his time. The author attempts to explain the work by an earlier Barthes, suggesting influences and investigating the reception of his work along the way.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374522070
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Signs written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology by Roland Barthes is a reflection on his travels to Japan in the 1960s. In twenty-six short chapters he writes about his encounters with symbols of Japanese culture as diverse as pachinko, train stations, chopsticks, food, physiognomy, poetry, and gift-wrapping. He muses elegantly on, and with affection for, a system "altogether detached from our own." For Barthes, the sign here does not signify, and so offers liberation from the West's endless creation of meaning. Tokyo, like all major cities, has a center--the Imperial Palace--but in this case it is empty, "both forbidden and indifferent ... inhabited by an emperor whom no one ever sees." This emptiness of the sign is pursued throughout the book, and offers a stimulating alternative line of thought about the ways in which cultures are structured.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374521344
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camera Lucida written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1981 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--Alibris.

Author : Roland Boer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004189769
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criticism of Theology written by Roland Boer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a lively and thorough critical commentary, Criticism of Theology engages with some of the most significant Marxists who are fascinated by religion: Max Horkheimer, E.P. Thompson, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Michael Löwy, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Antonio Negri.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374521462
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Elements of Semiology written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1968 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extraction from linguistics of analytical concepts which we think a priori to be sufficiently general to start semiological research on its way. In assembling them, it is not presupposed that they will remain intact during the course of research; nor that semiology will always be forced to follow the linguistic model closely. We are merely suggesting and elucidating a terminology in the hope that it may enable an initial (albeit provisional) order to be introduced into the heterogeneous mass of significant facts. In fact what we purport to do is furnish a principle of classification of the questions. These elements of semiology will therefore be grouped under four main headings borrowed from structural linguistics: I. Language and Speech; II. Signified and Signifier; III. Syntagm and System; IV. Denotation and Connotation."--Roland Barthes, from his Introduction

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810105898
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Essays written by Roland Barthes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan).