Roland Barthes

In a novel translated into English in 2017 as The Seventh Function of Language, Laurent Binet has fun with the fame of HC , Roland Barthes , Julia Kristeva and her husband Philippe Sollers

She also enrolled for doctoral work at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she studied at Université de Paris VII under Lévi-Strauss , Tzvetan Todorov , Roland Barthes , and Lucien Goldmann . She took her Ph.D. in 1973.

Kane acknowledges Roland Barthes 's A Lover's Discourse as an influence, particularly his comparison of a rejected lover to a Dachau prisoner: I was appalled he could make the connection, but I couldn't stop thinking...

This was her last novel published by Raleigh Trevelyan of Michael Joseph —who was, she believed, fired with a golden handshake for accepting it. Her choice of title was over-ruled because her publisher mistakenly...

Alison Lee 's book on AC calls her an intellectual writer, whose novels refer to many literary, critical, and musical works, including the social and anthropological theories of Roland Barthes , Claude Levi-Strauss , and...

This work surveys recent philosophical and scientific schools that attempt to articulate the intersection of determining social structures, especially language, and the individuals implicated in them. Working from a historical materialist framework, Language and Materialism...

This book attempts to unpick the meanings that cluster around some of the concepts most frequently taken for granted within the alternative health movement, concepts like well-being, nature, holism, women's intuition, personal change and the...

Four years after its publication, a reviewer for Contemporary Sociology called this book the best available introduction in the English language to the semiotic structuralism of Saussure , Lévi-Strauss , and Lacan ; the structural...

The reception of this book was modestly controversial. MF expressed her confidence that her subject himself would have approved. Two eminent academics in English Literature flatly disagreed over it. John Carey in the Sunday Times...

Through this research Lee anticipates several major critical turns of the twentieth century, such as those developed by I. A. Richards , Mikhail Bakhtin , Roland Barthes , and Wolfgang Iser . Though it received...

The first of these books addresses Freud 's concept of revolt against the fathers as the basis of individual maturation and independence, and seeks by looking at the lives of three distinguished modern social rebels...

Her subjects include George Eliot 's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston , Franz Kafka , Vonnegut and Salinger as cult figures, Roland Barthes and Vladimir Nabokov (pitted against each other as attacker and booster of...