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Mythologies
Beautiful reissue of this unique classic collection, featuring a newly translated essay not included in previous collections 'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and...
Roland Barthes
$200.00 AUD
Author: Roland Barthes, R. HowardBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1977, First English EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book offers an insightful exploration of the works and ideas of...
L'Empire Des Signes
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most brilliant minds turns his gaze upon an entirely foreign...
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
'A kind of mercurial elegy. . . Some extraordinary passion leaks through Barthes' lucid prose' Peter Ackroyd, Spectator 'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are...
Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition
An inquiry into a very modern art form - photography. Barthes personal investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of critical theory of the twentieth century. Barthes...
This Little Art
Part-essay and part-memoir, This Little Art is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation. Taking her experience translating Roland Barthes' lectures at the College de France as her starting...
The 7th Function of Language
Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch...
Barthes and the Empire of Signs
Barthes and the Empire of Signs follows him in exploring the nature of 'representation' itself. Is it possible to reconcile appearance and reality? Or imaginative recreation and fact? How do...
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism Linguistics And The Study Of Literature
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism stands Structuralist Poetics, a landmark work that forever changed...
The Drift of Things
$40.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS
Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing A Guardian Book...
Modern French Criticism: From Proust And Valéry To Structuralism
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of literature and philosophy, Modern French Criticism: From Proust and Valéry to Structuralism presents a...
Microlands: The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think)
Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses,...
Sir George Arthur, Bart; Superintendent Of British Honduras, Lieutenant-Governor Of Van Diemen's Land And Of Upper Canada, Governor Of The Bombay Presidency
$70.00 AUD
Author: A. G. L. ShawBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Red cloth in good condition. Good DJ with shelf wear. Clean and...
Microlands: The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You
'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes that crowd our planet's oceans' - Siddhartha Mukherjee...