Previous owner's signature on ffep.207pp.
Severn House, 1980, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Hardback Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0727806041

Inventory #20475

Price: £ 15.00 GBP ($ 19.80 approx. - € 17.40 approx.)

N.B. Previous owners bookplate to front paste down. Corners and head and tail of D/J spine rubbed. Two small tear to top right corner of rear D/J with a small amount of loss. 40pp.
Princeton University Press, 1948, Cloth, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #24190

Price: £ 20.00 GBP ($ 26.40 approx. - € 23.20 approx.)

N.B. Some underlining. Previous owners inscription to ffep. 248pp.
Black Rose Books, 1989, Paperback, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0921689403

Inventory #27822

Price: £ 6.00 GBP ($ 7.92 approx. - € 6.96 approx.)

This is a biography of Roland Barthes - one of the most important European intellectuals of the post-war years. In a lively account of Barthes's life and work, Calvet follows the brilliant semiotician from his provincial origins to his sudden death in 1980. He describes Barthes's move to Paris as a child, where he lived with his mother in modest surroundings and constant hardship. He argues that the experience of having his academic prospects ruined by his illness at an early age remained a thorn in Barthes's flesh: until the end of his life his relationship with the academic world was never free of bitterness, even resentment. Calvet retraces his years in Paris, Bucharest and Alexandria after the war. During this period Barthes gained access to intellectual circles and experienced his decisive encounter with modern linguistics, particularly with "semiotics", which he helped to establish as a discipline through his work on everyday myths, fashion and literature. Calvet discusses the whole range of Barthes's work as a critic and literary theorist, and demonstrates his tremendous importance and influence in the second half of the 20th century. This book provides a detailed portrait of Barthes's life, and a vivid reconstruction of the intellectual culture of post-war France. It should be of interest to students and researchers in literature, cultural studies, French studies, and anyone interested in the life and work of Roland Barthes. 291pp. N.B. Previous owners inscription to half title page.
Polity Press, 1994, Cloth, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 074561017X

Inventory #24593

Price: £ 18.00 GBP ($ 23.76 approx. - € 20.88 approx.)

Literature and Feminism is an exemplary new introduction to feminist literary criticism and theory which assumes no previous knowledge of the field. Clear, informative and carefully structured, it provides a thorough guide to, and path through, one of the most important, but also most difficult, areas of contemporary literary studies. 217pp. N.B. Previous owners inscription to ffep.
Blackwell Publishers, 1993, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 063118421X

Inventory #25374

Price: £ 8.50 GBP ($ 11.22 approx. - € 9.86 approx.)