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Image, Music, Text
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. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthe...more
Paperback, 220 pages
Published
1977
by Fontana Press
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Barthes extrapolates too much. He admits in one part of the book "This discussion has been limited to 'classical music'." Yeah, it was plainly obvious that his scope was too limited. Furthermore, he's just cheerleading for Beethoven part of the time after constructing an argument that makes Beethoven's music appear at some apogee of music. I can't buy this. Beethoven is confined by his biography just like every ot...more
Barthes extrapolates too much. He admits in one part of the book "This discussion has been limited to 'classical music'." Yeah, it was plainly obvious that his scope was too limited. Furthermore, he's just cheerleading for Beethoven part of the time after constructing an argument that makes Beethoven's music appear at some apogee of music. I can't buy this. Beethoven is confined by his biography just like every ot...more
Barthes is not as difficult as he initially seems to people [including myself]. The guy has what every great critic has: a sense of humour, pristine prose, and razor-sharp insight. And don't mistake him for a cut-and-dry New Critics-level formalist [I have nothing against them, let me note]; his reasoning is better and his ambitions greater. The New Critics can be seen as reductive in certain respects but if Barthes commits an act of apparent reduction, it is to open whole avenues of exploration...more
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 "music" in the title, actually spoke about music. There is one rather obnoxious essay about the difference between the active practice of music and the consumption of music as a passive listener, which seems to me like the work of someone with a very limited imagination of music's pow...more
Aug 14, 2012
Tasniem Sami
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5 of 5 stars
Shelves:
mind-blowing,
philosophy-and-critical-essays
It's my firist time to read critical essays so it's alittle bit hard to juge .
The firist two articles are about photographey but the most amazing essays was the death of the author and music practisa
The death of the author is adopting what most modern critics like T.S Eliot adopted about focusing on the work of art itself rather than the author , his motives or feelings , it was something I used to believe that the authors personality is showing in his writes but actully writing is escaping fr...more
The firist two articles are about photographey but the most amazing essays was the death of the author and music practisa
The death of the author is adopting what most modern critics like T.S Eliot adopted about focusing on the work of art itself rather than the author , his motives or feelings , it was something I used to believe that the authors personality is showing in his writes but actully writing is escaping fr...more
I enjoyed a few of the essays in this collection ("Death of the Author", "The Grain of the Voice", and some others). I should probably find another book by him. I have "mythologies" and "camera lucida" but haven't read them yet. Any suggestions?
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 "The Rhetoric of the Image," about the signification of commercial photography, and "The Death of the Author" and "From Work to Text," about new models of reading and writing. The last two piece in particular had a big impact on experimental design in the late 80s and early 90s. Those...more
Jun 02, 2012
Jonny
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An expansive effort, addressing TV and film, pop culture, semiotics, literature, mythology, advertising, and more, Image-Music-Text is interesting from cover to cover. But I think "Change the Object Itself" has done more to influence my understanding of literature than almost any other single piece of writing I've encountered. Read this now!!!
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 OED and finally read Barthes' famous essay, "The Death of the Author." Utterly fucking brilliant. Spectacular intellectual brio and huge ideas. My only problem was its conclusion, with which I can't say...more
Sort of a grab bag of Barthes - some exercises in semiotics (film stills, ads) and some more theoretical essays. "The Death of the Author" and "Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers" are terrific.
Jul 26, 2010
Theryn Fleming
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read-in-2010s,
communication
This time I read "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives" (1966). Barthes uses linguistics as a model for the structural analysis of narrative and identifies three levels of description in narrative: functions, actions, and narration. Previously I’ve read—and found useful—"Death of the Author" and "From Work to Text." Both of those are short, to-the-point essays. "Structural Analysis," on the other hand, seems to consist of his whole unsorted thought process, rather than the synth...more
old school barthes- very informative, very formalist.
but all worth it for the "death of the author"
but all worth it for the "death of the author"
Dec 13, 2011
Earl Rose
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started-never-finished
Read only 'The Death of the Author',
'Musica Poetica', 'From Work to Text'
& 'Change the Object Itself'.
To read: 'Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative'
'Musica Poetica', 'From Work to Text'
& 'Change the Object Itself'.
To read: 'Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative'
Dec 14, 2008
Sarah
marked it as to-read
picked up for 4euros at shakespeare & co! some playful theatrics to come...
I found this book while researching for my fine art degree essays, and I keep going back to his writings.
kiriman dari Pandasurya, trims Bro...!
di buku ini say amenemukan teks terkenal "death of an author". di pembukaannya ia mengambil contoh tulisan balzac yang dalam karyanya itu mengambil posisi 'aku', tapi perempuan.
dalam pembukaanini ia mau bilang bahwa dalam kisah author sudah hilang, mati dan kisah itu sendiri berjalan mendapatkan penyelesaiannya sendiri.
penjelasan mengenai otonomi kisah ini merupakan pernyataan yang penting buat saya.
dalam pembukaanini ia mau bilang bahwa dalam kisah author sudah hilang, mati dan kisah itu sendiri berjalan mendapatkan penyelesaiannya sendiri.
penjelasan mengenai otonomi kisah ini merupakan pernyataan yang penting buat saya.
This is another book suggestion from my dad. I remember it on his bookshelf as a kid, and I have his copy with some of his notes in it from 1986 or so. It's interesting how often he and an circle around to some of the same texts. He was also my first introduction to Sam Delaney. He had a copy of Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand in our bathroom for as long as I can remember.
Another great collection of essays that includes Barthes' famous proclamation of the "death of the author" along with memorable analyses such as "Rhetoric of the Image" and his structuralist investigation of narrative as form. This is a must for anyone interested in French Modernist/Postmodernist literary criticism.
Thinks like an angel, writes like the Devil.
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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.
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.
Or hardly started, considering I only read "The Death of the Author." Unfair, but that will probably be it for awhile yet.
I just couldn't get through this. I'm not having a lot of luck with essay collections lately.
i'm re-reading this and it's great. probably my favorite Barthe aside from Mythologies so far.
feels cheap scoring barthes with stars
Brilliant, interesting, readable essays.
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Roland Barthes was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes' work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism.
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