Roland Barthes

Routledge Critical Thinkers

by Graham Allen

Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media. This book prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates,
*existentialism and Marxism
*semiology, or the 'language of signs'
*structuralism and narrative analysis
*post-structuralism, deconstruction and 'the death of the author'
*theories of the text and intertextuality.
Tracing his engagement with other key thinkers such as Sartre, Saussure, Derrida and Kristeva, this volume offers a clear picture of Barthes work in-context. The in-depth understanding of Barthes offered by this guide is essential to anyone reading contemporary critical theory.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Theory, Reference, Ebooks, 21st Century, Semiotics

186 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Professor Graham Allen joined the School of English in University College Cork in 1995. Professor Allen has published extensively in the fields of literary and cultural theory and on subjects within Romantic literary studies. Professor Allen is Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the London Graduate School, a member of the Advisory Board of The Oxford Literary Review, a publishing poet and a regular book reviewer for The Sunday Business Post. The title poem of The One That Got Away won the 2010 Listowel Single Poem Prize and the collection has been shortlisted for The Crashaw Prize (2013), the Fool for Poetry Prize (2014) and the Strong/Shine First Collection Prize (2015).‍

Reviews

[Jesse · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series is quickly proving to be a godsend. Barthes is a theorist I've long been drawn to, but his subjects and approaches are so diverse and far-reaching that I've never been able to get a handle on the "larger picture." Graham Allen, whose other contribution to this series, Intertextuality, was one of the most pleasurable theory books I've ever read, provides an elegant and concise overview of Barthes's varied career as a writer and public intellectual, drawing subtle lines of continuity from Barthes's first book to his last (turns out my inability to grasp a "larger picture" was in fact one of Barthes's intentions).

Now I have much, much more to read, but at least I have a better idea of how to go about doing it.

[Sir Ehssan · Rating 3 out of 5]

۳.۵*

کتاب نسبتا مناسبی برای اشنایی با اندیشه های این اندیشمند.
مترجم خوبی هم دارد.

اما بعضی از مسایل را بسیار خلاصه وار توضیح داده و بحث های دیگر را مدام تکرار کرده است.

[Ketab Dozd · Rating 4 out of 5]

برای آشنایی با بارت و دوره‌های فکریش بسیار مفیده و با زبان خیلی قابل فهمی توضیح داده. دوستش داشتم.

[Yeah · Rating 4 out of 5]

funny