false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178211091m/770926.jpg 770926 12 <div>With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.<br></div> 1443157 1970 Empire of Signs total:212|5:62|4:78|3:58|2:8|1:6| 212 818 305 11 4 0 false false Sun Jun 21 06:49:32 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 06:55:02 -0700 2009
This reads like most Barthes books (and her...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 03 06:48:34 -0800 2007 Mon Jul 13 11:49:06 -0700 2009 Empire of Signs is an extended thought exercise about the relations between signifier and sign. In these chapters--which read more as connected essays--Barthes examines the functions and apparatuses of a fictional country he calls Japan, a society which is in every way the real country Japan, but wh...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 06 18:36:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 18:38:21 -0700 2009
could've done without the cultural physiognomy of the "japanese eye," though -- seems to me to indicate barthes' failure to delimit who counts as japanese, but i guess he kind of acknowledges that "his" Japan is o...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Tue Oct 30 21:48:01 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 22:29:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 21 23:28:16 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 20:02:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 13 03:28:14 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 03:31:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 22 17:07:11 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 17:08:47 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 14 11:56:36 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 12:20:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jul 29 01:00:01 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 10 13:09:10 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 19:06:31 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 00:38:10 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Aug 23 12:05:46 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 12:09:20 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Nov 22 02:03:23 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 02:03:23 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 06:08:51 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 13:00:31 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 23:55:13 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 23:55:13 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Nov 09 19:22:10 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 19:22:10 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 05 17:13:04 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 17:13:04 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri Oct 30 08:00:07 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 08:00:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 23:40:06 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 23:40:06 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Oct 17 04:14:15 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 04:14:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 16 01:27:06 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 07:52:11 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=770926