S/Z

Roland Barthes (Author)

9780631176077, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 11 October 1990

288 pages
21.6 x 13.9 x 2 cm, 0.426 kg

"Taken together, The Pleasure of the Text and S/Z force us to notice how much of the most interesting thought today is being carried forward in what we used to call 'literary criticism', and how important Barthes's own contribution to redefinition of the field has been." (The New York Times Book Review)

S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthes's system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which Balzac's novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically to uncover layers of hidden meaning.

Preface.

S/Z Appendices.

Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]