Empire of Signs - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780374522070

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by Roland Barthes (Author), Richard Howard (Translator)

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.

Author Biography

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.

Number of Pages: 128

Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN

Publication Date: September 01, 1983

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