Interdisciplinary Barthes - (Proceedings of the British Academy) by Diana Knight (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is still considered one of the most significant figures of postwar French thought and remains central to anglophone cultural theory.
- About the Author: Diana Knight is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Nottingham.
- 336 Pages
- History, Historiography
- Series Name: Proceedings of the British Academy
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About the Book
Interdisciplinary Barthes addresses the enduring stimulus that Barthes offers to intellectually adventurous work across the human sciences. It contextualises his creative engagements with ethnology, historiography, philosophy, ethics, music, photography, and literature, and traces the distinctive ways which he unsettled disciplinary boundaries.
Book Synopsis
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is still considered one of the most significant figures of postwar French thought and remains central to anglophone cultural theory. He is read by academic researchers and students in modern languages, comparative literature, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, music and visual studies, philosophy and critical theory, as well as attracting more broadly popular interest. This new and very up-to-date collection of essays brings together eighteen well-known specialists of his work - from France, the US, the UK and other European countries - to address the multiple disciplinary strands of his work and the ways he creatively unsettled the boundaries between them.
Review Quotes
As one might imagine in picking up any hardback publication from Oxford University Press, Interdisciplinary Barthes is a satisfying book to behold
-- "Sunil Manghani, Barthes Studies"About the Author
Diana Knight is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Nottingham. Her publications on Barthes include Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing (1997) and Critical Essays on Roland Barthes (2000), an edited anthology illustrating Barthes's reception in France, the UK, and the USA from 1953 to 2000. She is also the author of Flaubert's Characters: The Language of Illusion (1985) and Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in 'La Comédie humaine' (2007). She is General Editor of Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies and a member of the editorial boards of Paragraph and Nottingham French Studies. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.
