Writing Degree Zero - Brossura

Barthes, Roland

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374532354 ISBN 13: 9780374532352

Casa editrice: Hill & Wang Pub, 2012

Riassunto

Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses in Writing Degree Zero, his first published book and a landmark in his oeuvre. The debate had engaged the European literary community since the 1930s; with this fierce manifesto, Barthes challenged the notion of literature's obligation to be socially committed. Yes, Barthes allows, the writer has a political and ethical responsibility. But the history of French literature shows that the writer has often failed to meet it—and from Barthes's perspective, literature is committed to little more than the myth of itself. Expert and uncompromising, Writing Degree Zero introduced the themes that would soon establish Barthes as one of the leading voices in literary criticism.

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Roland Barthes was born in 1915. A French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic, he influenced the development of various schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, and post-structuralism. He died in 1980.

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Book by Barthes Roland

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• Editore: Hill & Wang Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0374532354
• ISBN 13: 9780374532352
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 88