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Pages: 136
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With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented
Barthes and the Empire of Signs
Language: en
Pages: 88
Authors: Peter Pericles Trifonas
Categories: Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Totem Books

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Roland Barthes' imaginative or fictive exploration of Japan prompted him to examine the social and historical contingency of signs, how their meaning changes th
The Empire of Signs
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Yoshihiko Ikegami
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, "L Empire des signes," from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with c
Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs
Language: en
Pages: 248
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Categories: Literary Criticism
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