TY  - BOOK
AU  - Culler, Jonathan
TI  - Barthes : a very short introduction
SN  - 9780192801593
U1  - G 840.9 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Oxford ; New York 
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Very short introductions
N1  - 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
ER  -