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The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation [Paperback]

Roland Barthes (Author), Richard Howard (Translator)


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0520072383 978-0520072381 February 7, 1991
These late essays of Roland Barthes's are concerned with the visible and the audible, and here the preoccupations are particularly intense and rewarding, in part because Barthes was himself, by predilection, an artist and a musician, and in part because he was of two minds about the very possibility of attaching to art and to music a written text, a criticism.

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"The essays included in The Responsibility of Forms, written mainly during the 1970s, swoop repetitively on those stray material fragments which elude the embrace of the sign, those gestures or nuances which even the most elaborate semiology must fail to formalize. It is a move from text to texture from 'gloss' as annotation to 'gloss' as material sheen. Like Freud before him, the later Barthes seeks to install himself at the very juncture of sign and body, semiotic and somatic, meaning and materiality." -- Terry Eagleton, Times Literary Supplement

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press (February 7, 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520072383
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520072381
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #709,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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