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Empire of Signs

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Availability:In StockContributor:Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (Translator)Publish date:1983-09-01Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hill & WangISBN-13:9780374522070ISBN-10:374522073UPC:9780374522070Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Asia, AsianBook Topic:Japan, JapaneseSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCR1J44520

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Hill & WangISBN-13:9780374522070ISBN-10:374522073UPC:9780374522070Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Asia, AsianBook Topic:Japan, JapaneseSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCR1J44520

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.


Publisher: Hill & Wang

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