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What is Sport?
Roland Barthes
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Description for What is Sport?
Paperback. Blurring the distinction between high and low, this work asks "What is sport?" In investigating the phenomenon, it considers five different national sports: bullfighting (Spain), car racing (America), cycling (France), hockey (Canada), and soccer (England). Translator(s): Howard, Richard. Num Pages: 80 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; WS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 176 x 8. Weight in Grams: 174.
A little-known gem, the text of Barthes's What Is Sport? was never reprinted in the Seuil editions of his Complete Works-neither the three-volume version nor the later five-volume edition. It is published here in a graceful and faithful English translation by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard. Originally commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the text for a documentary film directed by Hubert Aquin, What Is Sport? was written three years after the publication of Barthes's Mythologies (1957) and bears considerable resemblance to that work. Some of Barthes's best writing seems to have been inspired by popular culture. ... Read more
A little-known gem, the text of Barthes's What Is Sport? was never reprinted in the Seuil editions of his Complete Works-neither the three-volume version nor the later five-volume edition. It is published here in a graceful and faithful English translation by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard. Originally commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the text for a documentary film directed by Hubert Aquin, What Is Sport? was written three years after the publication of Barthes's Mythologies (1957) and bears considerable resemblance to that work. Some of Barthes's best writing seems to have been inspired by popular culture. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
174g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300116045
SKU
V9780300116045
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About Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was one of the most influential French writers of the second half of the twentieth century. His seminal works include Writing Degree Zero, Mythologies, Criticism and Truth, S/Z, The Pleasure of the Text, and The Rustle of Language. Richard Howard is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, including Untitled Subjects, for which he received the Pulitzer ... Read more
Reviews for What is Sport?
Full of paradoxes, surprising rapprochements, and the melancholy wisdom of which Barthes was always a master. -Peter Starr, University of Southern California
Peter Starr No work by Roland Barthes should remain inaccessible to American readers. This short text is especially appealing for what it tells us about Barthes's idea of the role of sports in the life of ... Read more
Peter Starr No work by Roland Barthes should remain inaccessible to American readers. This short text is especially appealing for what it tells us about Barthes's idea of the role of sports in the life of ... Read more