Barthes: A Very Short Introduction

• Widely recognized as the best short book on Barthes' work and influence
• Barthes is the most 'reader-friendly' of the great French theorists of the twentieth century, and thus among the most popular.
• Jonathan Culler is highly respected and widely published in his field, and also regarded as one of the clearest writers on literary theory

Readership: Anyone with a general interest in philosophy, literature, theory or psychoanalysis. Students in all these areas.

Jonathan Culler, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University

"Review from other book by this author It is impossible to imagine a clearer treatment of the subject, or one that is, within the given limits of length, more comprehensive. Culler has always been remarkable for his expository skills, and here he has found exactly the right method and tone for his purposes." - Sir Frank Kermode

Preface
1: Man of parts
2: Literary Historian
3: Mythologist
4: Critic
5: Polemicist
6: Semiologist
7: Structuralist
8: Hedonist
9: Writer
10: Man of Letters
11: Barthes after Barthes
Bibliography