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The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes

The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes

Lombardo, Patrizia

Paperback

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0820334936
ISBN13: 9780820334936
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Mar 1 2010
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Revolution must of necessity borrow, from what it wants to destroy, the very image of what it wants to possess.--Roland Barthes

In the field of contemporary literary studies, Roland Barthes remains an inestimably influential figure--perhaps more influential in America than in his native France. The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes proposes a new method of viewing Barthes's critical enterprise. Patrizia Lombardo, who studied with Barthes, rejects an absolutist or developmental assessment of his career. Insisting that his world can best be understood in terms of the paradoxes he perceived in the very activity of writing, Lombardo similarly sees in Barthes the crucial ambiguity that determines the modern writer--an irresistible attraction for something new, different, breaking with the past, yet also an unavoidable scorn for the contemporary world. Lombardo demonstrates that her mentor's critical endeavor was not a linear progression of thought but was, as Barthes described his work, a romance, a dance with a pen.

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