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 |
| Publication date: | 3rd September 2001 |
| Author: | Peter Pericles Trifonas |
| Publisher: | Icon Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 71 pages |
| Series: | Postmodern Encounters |
| Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Literary theory Philosophy Cultural studies |