How to Read Barthes' Image-Music-Text

by Ed White

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. As students are increasingly expected to write across a range of media, Barthes' work can be understood as an early mapping of what we now call interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study. The book's detailed section-by-section readings makes Barthes' most important writings accessible to undergraduate readers. This book is a perfect companion for teaching and learning Barthes' ideas in cultural studies and literary theory.

208 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2012

Reviews

[yuefei]

Offers some guidance and insight on how to approach the collection of Barthes' essays. Worth reading for the context provided. Sometimes the summaries felt lacking, and inevitably reductive (and often I couldn't find an answer to what I really wanted to know), but helpful overall.

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