Criticism and Truth - Softcover

Barthes, Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0485121441 ISBN 13: 9780485121445

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2000

Synopsis

In this English translation of the 1966 text, Dr Keuneman has provided a full range of notes on the issues and people alluded to in Barthes's text.

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Review

'A remarkable account' Fredric Jameson

'Barthes outlines some key concerns: plurality of meanings; analysis, based on linguistics, of the structures of possible meanings; the idea of a science of literature; and the dynamics of reading... a lively and accessible statement of an important modern critical position that is worth reading. ' - Library Journal

From the Back Cover

When the Sorbonne philologist Raymond Picard launched an attack on Roland Barthes's Sur Racine, a book that drew upon psychoanalysis and structural anthropology, Barthes responded with Critique et Verite. Published in France in 1966, Barthes's reply to Picard went beyond its polemical origins to become a key document in the formation of structuralism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0485121441
• ISBN 13: 9780485121445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Keuneman Katrine Pilcher