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  <title><![CDATA[Image-Music-Text]]></title>
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  <default-description>Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century.  His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. &lt;b&gt;Image-Music-Text&lt;/b&gt; collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, &quot;Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative&quot; and &quot;The Death of the Author&quot; are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought.  </default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Roland Barthes]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only other Barthes i've read was MYTHOLOGIES, which I loved. I loved how rooted that was in the real world, while this book felt completely insular and abstract. I'm also disappointed how little this book, with &quot;music&quot; in the title, actually spoke about music. There is one rather obnox...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28981922">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 24 06:32:40 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 24 04:12:41 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a classic work of critical theory by the French writer Roland Barthes. It is by turn illuminating, bewildering, infuriating, contradictory, and revelatory. For graphic designes, the most relevant essays are &quot;The Rhetoric of the Image,&quot; about the signification of commercial photogra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38519193">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 06 11:20:15 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 06 11:29:19 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Last night, I poured myself a nip of scotch and was all settled in to watch disc 3 of The Prisoner (Fellow Lost fans, you ain't seen shit), when I discovered the disc was missing.  Miffed, I swiped up this little volume from my coffee table (where it had sat for 2 months unopened), unsheathed the OE...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5782247">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 14 07:04:29 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[old school barthes- very informative, very formalist.<br/>but all worth it for the &quot;death of the author&quot;]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 14 01:02:53 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[picked up for 4euros at shakespeare &amp; co! some playful theatrics to come...]]></body>
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    <review id="2884075">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[di buku ini say amenemukan teks terkenal &quot;death of an author&quot;. di pembukaannya ia mengambil contoh tulisan balzac yang dalam karyanya itu mengambil posisi 'aku', tapi perempuan.<br/>dalam pembukaanini ia mau bilang bahwa dalam kisah author sudah hilang, mati dan kisah itu sendiri berjalan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2884075">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great collection of essays that includes Barthes' famous proclamation of the &quot;death of the author&quot; along with memorable analyses such as &quot;Rhetoric of the Image&quot; and his structuralist investigation of narrative as form. This is a must for anyone interested in French Modern...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1532680">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Roland Barthes on Sound and Vision (to quote the great David Bowie).  I can't imagine if you love the cinema you haven't read this book.  Do read it, I think it's essential work in film studies as well on aesthetics in general. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 22 17:09:04 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[roland barthes is just great----always curious and fascinated by the details of things. if you're going to read theory for pleasure, barthes is your guy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Or hardly started, considering I only read &quot;The Death of the Author.&quot; Unfair, but that will probably be it for awhile yet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm re-reading this and it's great. probably my favorite Barthe aside from Mythologies so far.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[feels cheap scoring barthes with stars]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant, interesting, readable essays.]]></body>
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