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Image Music Text Paperback – 27 Feb. 1987

by Roland Barthes (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
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  1. Print length
    234 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Fontana Press
  4. Publication date
    27 Feb. 1987
  5. Dimensions
    19.71 x 1.5 x 12.9 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0006861350
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0006861355
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ESSAYS SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY STEPHEN HEATH

'Image-Music-Text' brings together major essays by Roland Barthes on the structural analysis of narrative and on issues in literary theory, on the semiotics of photograph and film, on the practice of music and voice.

Throughout the volume runs a constant movement 'from work to text': an attention to the very ‘grain’ of signifying activity and the desire to follow – in literature, image, film, song and theatre – whatever turns, displaces, shifts, disperses.

Stephen Heath, whose translation has been described as “skilful and readable” (TLS) and “quite brilliant” (TES), is the author of 'Vertige du déplacement', a study of Barthes. His selection of essays, each important in its own right, also serves as “the best…introduction so far to Barthes’ career as the slayer of contemporary myths” (JOHN STURROCK, 'New Statesman).'

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fontana Press; Reprint edition (27 Feb. 1987)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 234 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0006861350
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0006861355
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.71 x 1.5 x 12.9 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 173 ratings

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Roland Barthes

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Roland Gérard Barthes (/bɑːrt/; French: [ʁɔlɑ̃ baʁt]; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.

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  • H. Colthup
    5.0 out of 5 stars Theory heaven
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 August 2013
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    If you're looking for solid theory on advertising, the media, photography, and literature then you've come to the right theorist. Roland Barthes work is approachable in a way that Derrida and Foucault just isn't - or maybe that's just me.
    'Image, Music, Text' is a collection of Barthes essays covering everything from the photographic message, to the rhetoric of the image, and his famous essay the Death of the Author. If you need to write an academic essay or paper on pretty much any area of contemporary culture then this book is invaluable.
    Now I'd better get back to writing my theoretic framework for my PhD....
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  • o young
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2023
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    A great read
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  • Ann Murphy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 May 2013
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    I bought this book for academic purposes and now will use it as a reference tool often for research.

    Would recommend this to anyone working in qualitative research, especially narrative, photo-elicitation, film and images. a brilliant selection of essays, wouldn't expect anything less from Barthes.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars I would add parenthetical(if you see what I mean) but once you come to terms with the idiosyncracies of style it reads quite smo
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2015
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    Terry Eagleton describes it as neologistic (Barthes' style); I would add parenthetical(if you see what I mean) but once you come to terms with the idiosyncracies of style it reads quite smoothly - a good job by Stephen Heath. Some of the reasoning can be difficult/obscure but you do feel his hearts in the right place (left, that is, of centre).
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  • Debbie Mac
    5.0 out of 5 stars Happy Daughter
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2019
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    Daughter loves it
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  • Jenny M
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 March 2017
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    Essential book for my study. Great collection of essays.
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  • Paul Grant
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2015
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    Item arrived on time and as described. Thanks.
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  • Anja Paixao
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2017
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    Great, as described!
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  • John S. Baker
    5.0 out of 5 stars A New Classic?
    Reviewed in the United States on 19 August 2014
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    Like so much of this author's work, I profit from it although I don't accept his premises. The writing is very hifalutin and abstract. It's not easy to figure out his meaning with all the abstract terms. Still he makes some great points.

    He uses a term - censorship through repletion - that I have never encountered elsewhere. I understand this to mean that there is so much worthless discourse that information has no audience. I find this an apt term for present US media. Our world is falling apart and the news is about Game of Thrones. The sea is rising and we worry about whether a favorite TV show will be canceled or which new toy is better, the a-phone or the b-phone.

    I prefer reading old books to new. Somehow Barthes seems like an old-timer in this equation. He's part of the tradition of making real points although he's not that ancient.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in India on 17 March 2018
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    Great Book
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  • Pravin Prakash Rai
    4.0 out of 5 stars Essential book for reference.
    Reviewed in India on 16 October 2020
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  • Derek Carter
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting
    Reviewed in the United States on 21 May 2013
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    Roland Barthes is a great writer, the various essays are concise, technical but without leaving the less technical reader lost. There is actually a lot to enjoy and I find as an artist Barthes insights inspire me to think about images in new ways while also giving insight into other arts like music and text. I would like to read more by Barthes in the future.
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  • Ned Rabe
    1.0 out of 5 stars terrible barely legible pirate copy.
    Reviewed in Canada on 4 July 2022
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    terrible reproduction I assume a pirate edition no legitimate publisher would put this out.
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