The semiotic challenge - Softcover

Roland Barthes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631162437 ISBN 13: 9780631162438

Verlag: Basil Blackwell, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Essays discuss the fundamentals of semiotics, set the guidelines for textual analysis, and examine selections from the Scriptures and a tale by Poe

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Review:

"[In "The Semiotic Challenge] Barthes . . . proceed[s] to carve up the text of Genesis into signifying units, decompose narratives into their syntagmatic and paradigmatic codes, shift with aplomb from the rhetoric of Balzac to that of beefsteak. The outraged professors of the Sorbonne, not to speak of their scandalized liberal-empiricist "confreres across the Channel, could not complain that this was done with anything but the most impeccable "sang-froid--a grave, poker-faced parody of conventional scholarship whose serene, fastidious tones barely conceal the most impudently subversive of intents."--Terry Eagleton, "Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.

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• Verlag: Basil Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0631162437
• ISBN 13: 9780631162438
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 293