S / Z An Essay
by Barthes Roland, Richard Miller (translator)
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Hill and Wang /Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Trade Paperback. Trade Paperback in very good condition, two dog-eared pages with light corner bumping and a clean, bright interior. "Language was both a luxury and a discipline for Barthes. He pursued a subject through language until he cornered it, until its disguise fell away and it was revealed in a kind of epiphany. In his own way, he cleaned the face of Paris more thoroughly than Andre Malraux did when he ordered its buildings washed down to their original colors and arranged for lights to be played upon them. Musing on the kind of painting done by someone like Ingres, Barthes says that 'painters have left movement the amplified sign of the unstable . "; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5802
- Title
- S / Z An Essay
- Author
- Barthes Roland, Richard Miller (translator)
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang /Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Semiotics & Theory, Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Citicism; Philosophy; Language;
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