The Rustle of Language

The Rustle of Language PDF Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066298
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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The Rustle of Language is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching—the pleasure of the text—in an authoritative translation by Richard Howard.

The Rustle of Language

The Rustle of Language PDF Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066298
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Book Description
The Rustle of Language is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching—the pleasure of the text—in an authoritative translation by Richard Howard.

Michelet

Michelet PDF Author: Jules Michelet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520078260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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"For students interested in historiography, Michelet is one of the earliest truly successful literary readings of an historical text. . . . For all of us who are interested in this field it is a classic."--Lionel Gossman, author of Between History and Literature

Empire of Signs

Empire of Signs PDF Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374522070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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This anthology by Roland Barthes is a reflection on his travels to Japan in the 1960s. In twenty-six short chapters he writes about his encounters with symbols of Japanese culture as diverse as pachinko, train stations, chopsticks, food, physiognomy, poetry, and gift-wrapping. He muses elegantly on, and with affection for, a system "altogether detached from our own." For Barthes, the sign here does not signify, and so offers liberation from the West's endless creation of meaning. Tokyo, like all major cities, has a center--the Imperial Palace--but in this case it is empty, "both forbidden and indifferent ... inhabited by an emperor whom no one ever sees." This emptiness of the sign is pursued throughout the book, and offers a stimulating alternative line of thought about the ways in which cultures are structured.

What is Sport?

What is Sport? PDF Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116047
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Book Description
In this elegant paperback gift edition, one of the major figures of 20th-century French literature and thought offers a poetic meditation on professional sport.

The Language of the Sea

The Language of the Sea PDF Author: James MacManus
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429923997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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A lyrical and affecting family drama which challenges readers to re-examine their perception of nature A striking blend of realism and contemporary myth-making, this unforgettable novel tells the story of marine biologist Leo Kemp. Having lost his teaching position thanks to outspoken views, Leo decides to go on one last field trip with his students. The outing becomes disastrous when the weather turns and Leo is thrown overboard. The evocative description of Leo's journey explores what can happen beyond our perceived knowledge of science. James MacManus's The Language of the Sea tests the bounds of reality with his cunning narrative set within the beautiful community of Cape Cod.

The Language of Dogs

The Language of Dogs PDF Author: Justin Silver
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982181214
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
The star of the television show "Dog in the City" presents his advice on dog training, emphasizing the importance of knowing a dog's unique personality and focusing on positive commands.

Mythologies

Mythologies PDF Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809071940
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Book Description
"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--

A Rustle in the Grass

A Rustle in the Grass PDF Author: Robin Hawdon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910198520
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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'A peculiarly fascinating story.' The Guardian's Polly Toynbee Above ground the countryside stretches quietly, majestically beneath the changing skies. Peaceful and untroubled, far from the wars and woes of man, nature moves through her timeless cycles. But look closer. For in the secret world beneath the grasses lies an empire in turmoil. A revered leader had died and, as the enemy prepares its armies for war, rebellion is whispered through the undergrowth. There in the kingdom of the ants the old order crumbles and the new prepares for its explosive birth. No single insect, from magnificent war leader to defiant rebel, from wise elder statesman to upstart contender, from beloved Queen to emerging young champion, is impervious to the revolutionary changes within the hierarchy, or the gathering threat from a terrible foe. Man may be ignorant of the cataclysmic battles unfolding beneath his vision, but he should take note. His struggles are not so very different....

The Language of Dying

The Language of Dying PDF Author: Sarah Pinborough
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
ISBN: 1681444348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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In this emotionally gripping, genre-defying novella from Sarah Pinborough, a woman sits at her father's bedside, watching the clock tick away the last hours of his life. Her brothers and sisters--she is the middle child of five--have all turned up over the past week to pay their last respects. Each is traumatized in his or her own way, and the bonds that unite them to each other are fragile--as fragile perhaps as the old man's health. With her siblings all gone, back to their self-obsessed lives, she is now alone with the faltering wreck of her father's cancer-ridden body. It is always at times like this when it--the dark and nameless, the impossible, presence that lingers along the fringes of the dark fields beyond the house--comes calling. As the clock ticks away in the darkness, she can only wait for it to find her, a reunion she both dreads and aches for...

Critical Essays

Critical Essays PDF Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810105898
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan).