How to read Barthes' Image-Music-Text / Ed White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Ed, 1945-

Series:

How to read theory.

How to read theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

Barthes, Roland. Essays--English--Selections.

Barthes, Roland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2012.

Summary:

Roland Barthes remains 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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

1. The Photographic Message

2. Rhetoric of the Image

3. The Third Meaning

4. Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein

5. Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative

6. The Struggle with the Angel

7. The Death of the Author

8. Musica Practica

9. From Work to Text

10. Change the Object Itself

11. Lesson in Writing

12. The Grain of the Voice

13. Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers

Reading Across Barthes' Work

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-84964-722-4