Bibliograph

Roland Barthes, phenomenon and myth, an intellectual biography, Andy Stafford

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Roland Barthes, phenomenon and myth, an intellectual biography, Andy Stafford

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Main title

Roland Barthes, phenomenon and myth

Oclc number

39677332

Responsibility statement

Andy Stafford

Sub title

an intellectual biography

Summary

Following the recent publication of Roland Barthes's Complete Works in French, this book explores the development of ideas across his career. Aware of the pitfalls of a biographical approach to the 'Death of the Author' theorist, Andy Stafford attempts to find Barthes somewhere between the writer as both product and producer of his time, by looking at influences on, and the reception of, his work. Barthes's life is divided into three distinct phases: the polemical journalist prior to 1960; the academic theorist in the 60s; and the celebrated intellectual of the 1970s.--, Provided by Publisher

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