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A lover's discourse : fragments / Roland Barthes ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.

by Barthes, Roland.

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Hill and Wang, 2010, c1978.

801.95092 B285L

Literary theory.

Love -- Terminology.

French language -- Terms and phrases.

9780374532314 (pbk.)

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234 p. ; 21 cm.

"Foreword by Wayne Koestenbaun"--Cover.

Translation of: Fragments d'un discours amoureux.

Includes bibliographical references.

"'A Lover's Discourse,' at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, 'A Lover's Discourse' artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes of themselves."

Roland Barthes was born in 1915. A French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic, he spent the early 1960s exploring the fields of semiology and structuralism, chairing various faculty positions around France. Many of his works challenged traditional academic views of literary criticism and of renowned figures of literature. His unorthodox thinking led to a conflict with a well-known Sorbonne professor of literature, Raymond Picard, who attacked the French New Criticism (a label that he inaccurately applied to Barthes) for its obscurity and lack of respect towards France's literary roots. Barthes influenced the development of schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, and post-structuralism. He died in 1980.

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