McQuillan / Mcquillan Roland Barthes

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-34389-4
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Transitions

Roland Barthes was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, but why should the reader of today, or tomorrow, be concerned with him? Martin McQuillan provides a fresh perspective on Barthes, addressing his political and institutional inheritance and considering his work as the origins of a critical cultural studies.This stimulating study:• provides a biographical consideration of Barthes' writing• offers an extended reading of his 1957 text Mythologies as a text for our own time, drawing Barthes' work into a historical relation to the present• examines his connection to what we call cultural studies• features an annotated bibliography of Barthes' published work.Thought-provoking and insightful, Roland Barthes is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the writings of this key theorist and his continuing relevance in our post-9/11 world.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

McQuillan, M.

Mcquillan, Martin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Roland Barthes, About this Book.- R.B. Bio-Bibliography.- Reading Roland Barthes in a Time of Terror.- An Answer to the Question: What is Cultural Studies?.- Notes.- Annotated Bibliography.- Further Reading.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

MARTIN MCQUILLAN is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, UK.