The Barthes Fantastic : Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language / John Lurz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lurz, John, Author.

Series:

Thinking Literature Series

Thinking Literature

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.) : 11 halftones

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This study of the writing of Roland Barthes breaks down the divide between lived experience and the language of a literary work. In The Barthes Fantastic, John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life—and confronts some habits of literary study—through a reading of the work of Roland Barthes. An influential French theorist, Barthes wrote prolifically on the place of language and the play of signs in the ways we produce cultural and aesthetic meaning. Ranging across the entire sweep of Barthes’s varied career, Lurz shows how Barthes’s insights into signification and literature involve particular intellectual activities that impart significance to the world. Doing so allows him to develop an expanded understanding of the fantastic as a conceptual category—a way of thinking—in which the texts we read come to inform the texture of our real lives. Ultimately, The Barthes Fantastic enlarges our sense of what we learn as students of literature and gives us a new picture of a writer we thought we knew.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Note on Quotations

Fore-Word

Introduction. On the Fantastic, in Barthes

1 Magic Lessons

2 How Notation Works

3 The Value of Literary Reflexion

4 Citation and Its Image

Conclusion. The Wisdom of Criticism

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780226839998

0226839990

OCLC:

1515461623