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How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
Roland Barthes
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Description for How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
Hardback. "Notes for a lecture course and seminar at Collaege de France (1976-1977)"-- T.p Translator(s): Briggs, Kate. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containing Barthes's challenge to the classic oppositions of Western thought and his effort to establish new pathways of meaning. How to Live Together predates both of these achievements, a series of lectures exploring solitude and the degree of contact necessary for individuals to exist and create at their own pace. ... Read more
In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containing Barthes's challenge to the classic oppositions of Western thought and his effort to establish new pathways of meaning. How to Live Together predates both of these achievements, a series of lectures exploring solitude and the degree of contact necessary for individuals to exist and create at their own pace. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136167
SKU
V9780231136167
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About Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician whose work has been central to the delineation and development of numerous schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology, and post-structuralism. His books include The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Courses and Seminars at the College de France (1978-1979 and 1979-1980); The Neutral: Lecture ... Read more
Reviews for How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
This is Roland Barthes at his inventive and idiosyncratic best: a brilliant and suggestive reader, both of literary texts and the social, psychic, and affective spaces of everyday life.
Diana Knight, University of Nottingham
Diana Knight, University of Nottingham