A Barthes reader. Edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag

Barthes, Roland, 1915-1980

Published by New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982

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PAPERBACK, very good, spine a bit faded by light, no ISBN on cover or in book. BARTHES, ROLAND. A Barthes reader. Edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag. New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982, stated First Printing, xxxviii, 495pp., . With almost 30-page introduction by Susan Sontag - CONTENTS: Writing itself : on Roland Barthes / by Susan Sontag -- Part I -- On Gide and his journal -- The world of wrestling -- [Excerpt] from Writing degree zero -- The world as object -- Baudelaire's theater -- The face of Garbo -- Striptease -- The Lady of the Camellias -- Myth today -- The last happy writer -- Buffet finishes off New York -- Tacitus and the funerary baroque -- Part II -- [Excerpt] from On Racine -- Authors and writers -- The photographic message -- The imagination of the sign -- The plates of the Encyclopedia -- The Eiffel Tower -- Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives -- Flaubert and the sentence -- Lessons in writing -- Part III -- The third meaning -- Fourier -- Writers, intellectuals, teachers -- [Excerpt] from The pleasure of the text -- [Excerpt] from Roland Barthes -- [Excerpt] from A lover's discourse -- Inaugural lecture, Collège de France -- Deliberation. ISBN 9780374521448.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Barthes reader. Edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag
• Publisher: New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition