Critical Essays
- ISBN-10
- 0810105896
- ISBN-13
- 9780810105898
- Series
- Critical Essays
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 279
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1972
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Author
- Roland Barthes
Description
The essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan).
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2005
- 519 pages
- Paperback
- Vantage Press, Inc
Similar books
-
How to Write Critical Essays
By David B. PirieThis invaluable book offers the student of literature detailed advice on the entire process of critical essay writing, from first facing the question right through to producing a fair copy for final submission to the teacher.
-
Zadie Smith: Critical Essays
By Tracey Lorraine WaltersThis thought-provoking collection is a much-needed critical tool for students and researchers in both contemporary British literature and Diasporic literature and culture."--Back cover.
-
New Critical Essays
By Roland BarthesThe concluding essays on Fromentin and Loti show the breadth of Barthes's inquiry. As a whole, the essays demonstrate both the acuity and freshness of Barthes's critical mind and the gracefulness of his own use of language.
-
New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut
By D. SimmonsWith the death of Vonnegut in 2007, now seems like an appropriate time to set about reassessing the author's extensive ... New York: State University of New York Press, 2006); and Susan E. Farrell (A Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut.
-
Lyrical and Critical Essays
By Albert Camus"Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it.
-
Droppin' Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
By William Eric PerkinsEleven essays analyze various aspects of hip-hop that are usually neglected, including coverage of female and Latino contributions to both rap and hip-hop culture.
-
Eighteenth-century Critical Essays
By Scott ElledgeA selection of representative writings in literary criticism and aesthetics by 40 critics.
-
Georges Rodenbach: Critical Essays
By Philip MosleyHis pervasive interest in Bruges suffuses his work with the quiet, spiritual atmosphere of the "dead" city, a theme frequently evoked by writers of the fin de siecle.
-
Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays
By Jo GillContributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.
-
Salman Rushdie: Critical Essays
By Rama Kundu, Mohit Kumar RayRushdie Has Been Rightly Compared With Such Literary Innovators Stalwarts Of Our Times As Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Et Al. Readers Of The Present Volumes Will Be Taken Round The World Of Rushdie By Erudite ...