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Barthes and The empire of signs / Peter Pericles Trifonas.
Van Pelt Library DS821.B3173 T75 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trifonas, Peter Pericles, 1960-
- Series:
- Postmodern encounters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barthes, Roland. Empire des signes.
- Barthes, Roland.
- Barthes, Roland--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 71 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Duxford, Cambridge, UK : Icon Books ; [New York] : Totem Books ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed to the trade in the USA by National Book Network, 2001.
- Summary:
- From relativism to relativity, from quantum theory to queer theory, Postmodern Encounters is a series of small books, each discussing a key idea at the cutting edge of contemporary thought.
- What does it mean to read the signs of culture? Roland Barthes' imaginative or fictive exploration of Japan prompted him to examine the social and historical contingency of signs, how their meaning changes through time and in different contexts. Popular culture and the mass media have transformed the world today into an "empire of signs", an imperial rule of the image.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-62).
- ISBN:
- 1840462779
- OCLC:
- 47638235
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