Criticism and Truth - Hardcover

Barthes, Roland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816616086 ISBN 13: 9780816616084

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1987

Synopsis

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include Mythologies and Camera Lucida. Criticism and Truth is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural, linguistic and intellectual challenge to those who believe in the clarity, flexibility and neutrality of language, couched in Barthes' own inimitable and provocative style.

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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: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816616086
• ISBN 13: 9780816616084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 119