A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself.

Examines the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death. This title offers an investigation into the nature of photographs.

The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. This book revives beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture - the notion of the amorous subject.

The linguistic distillation of Barthes' system of semiology in which the Balzac novella Sarrasine is dissected to uncover layers of meanings and interpretations. Barthes' interpretation of language and meaning lies within the 20th-century structuralist mode, similar to that of Levi-Strauss.

Newly illustrated by Piero, 'Introducing Barthes' brilliantly introduces this pioneer of 20th century semiotics. It explains Barthes' application of these ideas to literature and popular culture, and shows why he was a key figure in the structuralist movement.

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Fontana Press. Roland Barthers reissue with new jacket.

Provides an interpretative overview of the idiosyncratic writings of eight theorists whose work has profoundly influenced the conceptual and theoretical basis of our contemporary understanding of clothes and the fashion system. This book also provides an historical outline of Western conceptions of clothes and fashion.

Conceptual art is an art of ideas which can be written, enacted or carried in your head - challenging the notion that a work of art is an object of visual pleasure. This text combines survey essays, plate sections of key words, descriptions and an anthology of key texts.

In this collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the flooding of the Seine - and other shared events and aspects of everyday experience.

Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media. This title prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates. Tracing his engagement with other key thinkers, it offers a clear picture of Barthes' work in-context.

Roland Barthes was the leading figure of French Structuralism, the theoretical movement of the 1960s which revolutionized the study of literature and culture, as well as history and psychoanalysis. But Barthes was a man who disliked orthodoxies. This book surveys Barthes' work in prose.