""A Very Fine Gift"" and Other Writings on Theory

Roland Barthes, Chris Turner, Chris Turner

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Seagull Books London Ltd
13 December 2023

Philosophy of language; Literary studies: general

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.

Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including Empire of Signs, The Pleasure of the Text, and Camera Lucida. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980.

The greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. In volume one, A Very Fine Gift, Barthes attempts to frame his lifelong curiosities in theoretical form, from his early musings on the sociology of literature through his high period of structuralism to his later reflections on Derrida.

By: Roland Barthes, Chris Turner
Edited by: Chris Turner
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 8mm, Width: 5mm, Spine: 1mm
ISBN: 9781803092751
ISBN 10: 1803092750
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 13 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Should Grammar Be Killed Off? A Brief Sociology of the Contemporary French Novel An Innovation in Criticism New Problems of Realism Works of Mass Culture and Explication de Texte The Human Sciences and the Works of Lévi-Strauss Mass Culture, High Culture Response to a Survey on Structuralism A Dialectical Writing Practice Interview on Structuralism Linguistics and Literature Ten Reasons to Write A Problematic of Meaning The Linguistics of Discourse On Theory A Very Fine Gift Letter to Jean Ristat For a Theory of Reading Supplement Writing Responses A Kind of Manual Labour Foreword to ‘Jakobson’ Relations between Fiction and Criticism according to Roger Laporte

Roland Barthes (1915–80) was a professor at the Collège de France until his death. His books include Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography; Image, Music, Text; and A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. He has translated Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Aftermath of War, Portraits, and Critical Essays and André Gorz’s Ecologica and The Immaterial, all published by Seagull Books.

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""A Very Fine Gift"" and Other Writings on Theory

Roland Barthes, Chris Turner, Chris Turner

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