Critical Essays

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by Roland Barthes,

Translated by Richard Howard

Northwestern University Press

Due/Published January 1972, 279 pages, paper

ISBN 0810105896

Most of the work in Critical Essays marks and apparently decisive conversion to structuralism understood in its strictest sense, whereby literature and social life are regarded as 'no more than' languages, to be studied not in their content but in their structure, as pure relational systems.