Barthes: A Very Short Introduction

Barthes: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Roland Barthes was the leading figure of French Structuralism, the theoretical movement of the 1960s which revolutionized the study of literature and culture, as well as history and psychoanalysis. But Barthes was a man who disliked orthodoxies. This book surveys Barthes’ work in prose.

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Jonathan Culler (Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University) – Oxford University Press