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Bringing Out Roland Barthes

ISBN13: 9780520079489
ISBN10: 0520079485
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In this essay, D. A. Miller offers an album of moments in an imaginary "homosexual encounter" between himself and Roland Barthes. Miller responds to various names, phrases, images, and themes in Barthes's work that provide him occasions for assessing, across differences of nation and generation, some characteristic strains of modern gay experience.

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ISBN:: 9780520079489
Author:: Miller, D. A.
Publisher:: University of California Press
Location:: Berkeley :
Subject:: General
Subject:: Literary
Subject:: Biography
Subject:: Linguistics
Subject:: Critics
Subject:: Barthes, roland, 1915-1980
Subject:: Linguists
Subject:: Critics -- France -- Biography.
Subject:: General Literary Criticism & Collections
Edition Description:: Trade paper
Series Volume:: 500-173.
Publication Date:: 19920904
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 55 p.
Dimensions:: 8.25x5.54x.26 in. .27 lbs.

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