RUSTLE OF LANGUAGE - Softcover

Barthes, Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809015277 ISBN 13: 9780809015276

Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1988

Synopsis

Essays discuss science, mythology, language, style, history, semiotics, literature, and meaning

About this title

Review:

"In the 20th century, the French essayic mind may have tunneled to its deepest riches in the works of the late Roland Barthes." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

"Barthes ... was one of the leading philosophical linguists of our time.... The book should prove an excitement for students of language." --Publishers Weekly

"Barthes' career was an exemplary search for understanding how man creates meaning.... This has been a characteristic preoccupation of our age, and no one addressed himself to it so persistently, so multifariously, so ingeniously, as Barthes." --Peter Brooks, The New Republic

"Teacher, man of letters, moralist, philospher of culture, connoisseur of strong ideas, protean autobiographer . . . of all the intellectual notables who have emerged since World War II in France, Roland Barthes is the one whose work I am most certain will endure" --Susan Sontag

About the Author:

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French cultural and literary critic, whose clever and lyrical writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading movements of the twentieth century. Barthes had a cult following and published seventeen books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0809015277
• ISBN 13: 9780809015276
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384