{"product_id":"the-three-paradoxes-of-roland-patrizia-lombardo-9780820334936","title":"The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes","description":"\u003cp\u003eRevolution must of necessity borrow, from what it wants to destroy, the very image of what it wants to possess.--Roland Barthes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the field of contemporary literary studies, Roland Barthes remains an inestimably influential figure--perhaps more influential in America than in his native France. \u003ci\u003eThe Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new method of viewing Barthes's critical enterprise. Patrizia Lombardo, who studied with Barthes, rejects an absolutist or developmental assessment of his career. Insisting that his world can best be understood in terms of the paradoxes he perceived in the very activity of writing, Lombardo similarly sees in Barthes the crucial ambiguity that determines the modern writer--an irresistible attraction for something new, different, breaking with the past, yet also an unavoidable scorn for the contemporary world. Lombardo demonstrates that her mentor's critical endeavor was not a linear progression of thought but was, as Barthes described his work, a romance, a \"dance with a pen.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrizia Lombardo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820334936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820334936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d","brand":"Patrizia Lombardo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721273921791,"sku":"9780820334936","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1766663c-a6f2-4a6c-8a09-dd2267ee79e6.jpg?v=1742752372","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-three-paradoxes-of-roland-patrizia-lombardo-9780820334936","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}