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  • Camera Lucida

    Reflections on Photography

    by Roland Barthes ...
    Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mourning Diary

    by Roland Barthes ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Intimate and deeply moving, Mourning Diary is a profound study of grief and solitude, drawn from the lost diary of influential philosopher Roland Barthes.The day after his mother's death in October 1977, Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's dismissal of grief. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Album

    Unpublished Correspondence and Texts

    by Roland Barthes ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Steel Chair to the Head

    The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling

    by Roland Barthes, Henry Jenkins III, Sharon Mazer, Carlos Monsivais ...
    The antagonists—oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine critical rigor with a deep appreciation of wrestling as a unique cultural form, the latest in a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Album

    Unpublished Correspondence and Texts

    by Roland Barthes ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    Mythologies

    The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

    by Roland Barthes ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 13 min

    What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? Anepic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconicimages of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they arefabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass culture.When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Camera Lucida

    Reflections on Photography

    by Roland Barthes ...
    Narrated by James Gillies ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 8 min

    Camera Lucida**, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.**Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Jealousy and In the Labyrinth

    Two Novels

    by Alain Robbe-Grillet ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Two novels by the pioneering French author and founder of the Nouveau Roman literary movement—with essays by Roland Barthes and others.In Jealousy, a man living on a banana plantation obsessively watches everything around him, from the landscape and insects to his wife's every move. In the Labyrinth follows a an increasingly desperate soldier as he carried a mysterious package through an unknown ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus