Roland Barthes Writing the Political
Author | : Andrew Stafford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-11-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 1785278975 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781785278976 |
Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Download or read book Roland Barthes Writing the Political written by Andrew Stafford and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Barthes and the Political: Dialectics of Historiography, Politics and Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France's most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes's wide-ranging analyses - from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan - can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world, in what he called the writer's 'double grasp'.