Barthes R. The Semiotic Challenge

Transl. from the French: Richard Howard. — Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1988. — 294 p. — ISBN 0-631-16244-5.Most of these essays were written between 1963 and 1973 and constitute either the elements of the semiotic discipline or the analysis of texts — ranging from the Bible to advertising — in order to determine the site of possible meanings in narratives. Intent on discovering signification's importance in art as well as life, Barthes sets up a rigorous system and puts it to work.Introduction: The Semiological Adventure
Elements
The Old Rhetoric: an aide-memoire
Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives
The Sequences of Actions
Domains
Saussure, the Sign, Democracy
The Kitchen of Meaning
Sociology and Socio-Iogic
The Advertising Message
Semantics of the Object
Semiology and Urbanism
Semiology and Medicine
Analyses
The Structural Analysis of Narrative: Apropos of Acts 10-11
Wrestling with the Angel: Textual Analysis of Genesis 32:23-33
Textual Analysis of a Tale by Edgar Allan PoeФайл: отскан. стр. (b/w 300 dpi) + OCR