Northwestern University Press, 2009 Paper: 978-0-8101-2640-4 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6420-8 Library of Congress Classification P99.B28713 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 302.2
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book brings together the great majority of Barthes’s interviews that originally appeared in French in Le Figaro Littéraire, Cahiers du Cinéma, France-Observateur, L'Express, and elsewhere. Barthes replied to questions—on the cinema, on his own works, on fashion, writing, and criticism—in his unique voice; here we have Barthes in conversation, speaking directly, with all his individuality. These interviews provide an insight into the rich, probing intelligence of one of the great and influential minds of our time.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) was born in Normandy, raised in Paris, and was educated at the Sorbonne and Centre national de la recherche scientifique. His first book, Mythologies, about myths in popular culture, was published in 1957. He was a central figure in schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, and post-structuralism. His works include S/Z, Camera Lucida, and the essay "The Death of the Author." Northwestern University Press is reissuing Barthes’s New Critical Essays this season as well.
Linda Coverdale is an award=winning translator of more than fifty books. In 2001, the French government awarder her the title of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
From Speech to Writing
Do Things Mean Something?
On Film
I Don't Believe in Influences
Semiology and Cinema
On Behalf of the "New Criticism," Roland Barthes Replies to Raymond Picard
On The Fashion System and the Structural Analysis of Narratives The Fashion System
Conversation on a Scientific Poem
On S/Z and Empire of Signs L'Express Talks with Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes on Criticism
Digressions
Interview: A Conversation with Roland Barthes
The Fatality of Culture, the Limits of Counterculture
Pleasure / Writing / Reading
The Adjective Is the "Statement" of Desire
An Almost Obsessive Relation to Writing Instruments
The Phantoms of the Opera
Roland Barthes versus Received Ideas
What Would Become of a Society that Ceased to Reflect upon Itself?
The Play of the Kaleidoscope
Twenty Key Words for Roland Barthes
Literature / Teaching
The Surrealists Overlooked the Body
The Crisis of Truth
A Great Rhetorician of Erotic Figures
Of What use Is an Intellectual? A Lover's Discourse
The Greatest Cryptographer of Contemporary Myths Talks about Love
On the Subject of Violence
A Few Words to Let in Doubt
An Extremely Brutal Context
Roland Barthes on Roland Barthes
Dare to Be Lazy
For a Chateaubriand of Paper
From Taste to Ecstasy
On Photography
The Crisis of Desire
Bibliography
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Northwestern University Press, 2009 Paper: 978-0-8101-2640-4 eISBN: 978-0-8101-6420-8
This book brings together the great majority of Barthes’s interviews that originally appeared in French in Le Figaro Littéraire, Cahiers du Cinéma, France-Observateur, L'Express, and elsewhere. Barthes replied to questions—on the cinema, on his own works, on fashion, writing, and criticism—in his unique voice; here we have Barthes in conversation, speaking directly, with all his individuality. These interviews provide an insight into the rich, probing intelligence of one of the great and influential minds of our time.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) was born in Normandy, raised in Paris, and was educated at the Sorbonne and Centre national de la recherche scientifique. His first book, Mythologies, about myths in popular culture, was published in 1957. He was a central figure in schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, and post-structuralism. His works include S/Z, Camera Lucida, and the essay "The Death of the Author." Northwestern University Press is reissuing Barthes’s New Critical Essays this season as well.
Linda Coverdale is an award=winning translator of more than fifty books. In 2001, the French government awarder her the title of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
From Speech to Writing
Do Things Mean Something?
On Film
I Don't Believe in Influences
Semiology and Cinema
On Behalf of the "New Criticism," Roland Barthes Replies to Raymond Picard
On The Fashion System and the Structural Analysis of Narratives The Fashion System
Conversation on a Scientific Poem
On S/Z and Empire of Signs L'Express Talks with Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes on Criticism
Digressions
Interview: A Conversation with Roland Barthes
The Fatality of Culture, the Limits of Counterculture
Pleasure / Writing / Reading
The Adjective Is the "Statement" of Desire
An Almost Obsessive Relation to Writing Instruments
The Phantoms of the Opera
Roland Barthes versus Received Ideas
What Would Become of a Society that Ceased to Reflect upon Itself?
The Play of the Kaleidoscope
Twenty Key Words for Roland Barthes
Literature / Teaching
The Surrealists Overlooked the Body
The Crisis of Truth
A Great Rhetorician of Erotic Figures
Of What use Is an Intellectual? A Lover's Discourse
The Greatest Cryptographer of Contemporary Myths Talks about Love
On the Subject of Violence
A Few Words to Let in Doubt
An Extremely Brutal Context
Roland Barthes on Roland Barthes
Dare to Be Lazy
For a Chateaubriand of Paper
From Taste to Ecstasy
On Photography
The Crisis of Desire
Bibliography
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