00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862036173 Buklod 20160905124355.0 g||| | || || ta 160905t20021983enka rb |001 0beng d 0192801597 (iLib)UPBAG-00021792055 DLC BAG rda eng P 85 B33 C85 2002 Culler, Jonathan D. author. Barthes a very short introduction Jonathan Culler. Oxford Oxford University Press 2002, ©1983. 144 pages illustrations 18 cm Very short introductions 56 Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-140) and index. Man of parts -- Literary historian -- Mythologist -- Critic -- Polemicist -- Semiologist -- Structuralist -- Hedonist -- Writer -- Man of letters -- Barthes after Barthes. "Roland Barthes (1915-80) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with 'the way people make their world intelligible'. He has a multifaceted claim to fame: to some he is the structuralist who outlined a 'science of literature', and the most prominent promoter of semiology; to others he stands not for science but pleasure, espousing literature which gives the reader a creative role." "He called for 'the death of the author', urging that we study not writers but texts, yet he himself published idiosyncratic books rightly celebrated as imaginative products of a personal vision." "Jonathan Culler elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of this 'public experimenter' and describes the many projects which Barthes explored."--Jacket. Barthes, Roland. Linguists France Biography. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN P 85 B33 C85 2002 Book