Roland Barthes, Phenomenon and Myth: An Intellectual Biography

by Andy Stafford

Following the recent publication of Roland Barthes's Complete Works in French, this book explores the development of ideas across his career. Aware of the pitfalls of a biographical approach to the 'Death of the Author' theorist, Andy Stafford attempts to find Barthes somewhere between the writer as both product and producer of his time, by looking at influences on, and the reception of, his work. Barthes's life is divided into three distinct...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748608672
• ISBN13: 9780748608676
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher