{"product_id":"a-very-fine-gift-and-other-writings-on-theory-by-roland-barthes-9781803092751","title":"\"A Very Fine Gift\" and Other Writings on Theory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another—he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on to produce some of the most suggestive and stimulating cultural criticism of the late twentieth century, including \u003cem\u003eEmpire of Signs\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Pleasure of the Text\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/em\u003e. In 1976, this one-time structuralist outsider was elected to a chair at France’s preeminent Collège de France, where he chose to style himself as a professor of literary semiology until his death in 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe greater part of Barthes’s published writings has been available to a French audience since 2002, but now, translator Chris Turner presents a collection of essays, interviews, prefaces, book reviews, and other journalistic material for the first time in English and divided into five themed volumes. In volume one, \u003cem\u003eA Very Fine Gift\u003c\/em\u003e, Barthes attempts to frame his lifelong curiosities in theoretical form, from his early musings on the sociology of literature through his high period of structuralism to his later reflections on Derrida.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455526682860,"sku":"9781803092751","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71xGVHJloCL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774778418","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-very-fine-gift-and-other-writings-on-theory-by-roland-barthes-9781803092751","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}