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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Vintage Classics
In its search for authorities and examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, the book might be considered an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's.
Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
$12.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposit ...Show more
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Professor Roland Barthes (Formerly, University of Paris)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A graceful, contemplative volume, "Camera Lucida "was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death an ...Show more
Criticism and Truth by Roland Barthes
$32.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Criticism and Truth is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon.
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
$28.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Vintage classics
A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself.
Mythologies by Roland Barthes; Annette Lavers (Translator)
$12.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'Mythologies' is a series of essays on the codings that command our daily life, from hairstyles in the film Julius Caesar to glossy photographs of gourmet cooking, to the cult of foam in detergents.
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland BARTHES
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as its author, Barthes plays both commentator and subject to reveal his tastes, habits, passions and regre ...Show more
The Language of Fashion by Roland Barthes (tr Andy Stafford; ed s Andy Stafford & Michael Carter)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Roland Barthes, widely regarded as one of the most perceptive critics of the twentieth century, was particularly fascinated by fashion and clothing. This collection brings together all of Barthes' untranslated writings on fashion, revealing the breadth and insight of Barthes' long engagement with the hi ...Show more
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