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Roland Barthes Retroactively: Reading the College De France Lectures
Jurgen Pieters (Ed.)
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Description for Roland Barthes Retroactively: Reading the College De France Lectures
Paperback. This Special Issue of the journal Paragraph proposes a new reading of the College de France Lectures of Roland Barthes. Editor(s): Pieters, Jurgen; Pint, Kris. Series: Paragraph Special Issues. Num Pages: 122 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 224.
In January 1977 Roland Barthes became professor of literary semiology at the College de France, where he taught for three years until his death in March 1980. His lectures from those years, published more than two decades after his death, represent the final intellectual journey of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In his late teaching, Barthes continuously challenged his previous work, seeking out new ways of reading and living. In his idiosyncratic style, he sketched the outlines of a critical and ethical project that is still thought- provoking and relevant today. Taking the College de ... Read more
In January 1977 Roland Barthes became professor of literary semiology at the College de France, where he taught for three years until his death in March 1980. His lectures from those years, published more than two decades after his death, represent the final intellectual journey of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In his late teaching, Barthes continuously challenged his previous work, seeking out new ways of reading and living. In his idiosyncratic style, he sketched the outlines of a critical and ethical project that is still thought- provoking and relevant today. Taking the College de ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
122
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Paragraph Special Issues
Condition
New
Number of Pages
122
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748636921
SKU
V9780748636921
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About Jurgen Pieters (Ed.)
Jurgen Pieters teaches literary theory and cultural history at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He is the author of Moments of Negotiation. The New Historicism of Stephen Greenblatt (Amsterdam University Press, 2001). Kris Pint is Lecturer in Cultural and Literary Theory at the Department of Architecture and Fine Arts of the Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, Belgium.
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