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Barthes and the Empire of Signs

Peter Pericles Trifonas author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Icon Books

Published:3rd Sep '01

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Roland Barthes' experience of Japan, a morass of signs where appearance and reality intermingle, led him to move from linguistic semiology to a much broader critical enquiry into the field of mass media and popular culture. Do we inhabit today an 'empire of signs'?

ISBN: 9781840462777

Dimensions: 178mm x 111mm x 6mm

Weight: 70g

80 pages