Image-Music-Text by Roland Barthes, ISBN-13: 978-0374521363

Image-Music-Text by Roland Barthes, ISBN-13: 978-0374521363

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• Publisher: ‎ Hill and Wang (July 1, 1978)
• Language: ‎ English
• 240 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0374521360
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0374521363

Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes’s best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes’s most important essays, “Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative” and “The Death of the Author” are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought.

Table of Contents:

Translator’s Note 7
Sources 13
The Photographic Message 15
Rhetoric of the Image 32
The Third Meaning 52
Research notes on some Eisenstein stills
Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein 69
Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives 79
The Struggle with the Angel 125
Textual analysis of Genesis 32: 22-32
The Death of the Author 142
Musica Practica 149
From Work to Text 155
Change the Object Itself 165
Mythology today
Lesson in Writing 170
The Grain of the Voice 179
Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers 190
Index 217

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French cultural and literary critic, whose clever and lyrical writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading movements of the twentieth century. Barthes had a cult following and published seventeen books, including Camera Lucida, Mythologies, and A Lover’s Discourse.

Stephan Heath is a Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge.

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