How to Read Barthes'' Image-Music-Text

Informationen zum Autor Ed White is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Florida at Gainesville. He is the author of The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America (2005) and co-editor of Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American Literature (2008). Klappentext Roland Barthes is one of the most influential cultural theorists of the postwar period and Image-Music-Text collects his most influential essays. Ed White provides students with a clear guide to this essential but difficult text. As students are increasingly expected to write across a range of media, Barthes' work can be understood as an early mapping of what we now call interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study. The book's detailed section-by-section readings makes Barthes' most important writings accessible to undergraduate readers. This book is a perfect companion for teaching and learning Barthes' ideas in cultural studies and literary theory. Zusammenfassung An accessible guide to Barthes' most widely taught work

Product details

• Authors: Ed White, White Ed
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2012
• EAN: 9780745329574
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2957-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: How To Read Theory; How to Read Theory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Literary theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Semiotics / semiology, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism