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Introducing Barthes: A Graphic Guide
By Philip Thody and Piero
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INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the way they use language, clothes, gestures, hair styles, visual images, shapes and colour to convey to one another their tastes, their emotions, their ideal self-image and the values of their society. Introducing Barthes brilliantly elucidates Barthes' application of these ideas to literature, popular culture, clothes and fashion, and explains why his thinking in this area made him a key figure in the structuralist movement of the 1960s. It goes on to describe how his later insistence on pleasure, the delights of sexual non-conformity, and the freedom of the reader to interpret literary texts in the light of ideologies such as existentialism, Marxism and Freudianism, as well as structuralism itself, continues to make him one of the most dynamic and challenging of modern writers. This is the perfect companion volume to Introducing Semiotics.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The illustrations in this book are, indeed, very bizarre. However, my main criticism is that it is not necessary to have someone introduce Barthes's essays on all-in wrestling and 'The Death of the Author' because they are short and simple enough to be worth reading themselves. In the course of my not particularly careful reading I didn't pick up much about Barthes's other important works. Nonetheless, I found this book quite an entertaining read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great intro to a difficult subject. Informative and entertaining. Excellent recommendations for follow-on reading.
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