What is An Image I: Meaning of Images

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Dear all,



 Although you  have got the article already on last Friday, still I'm posting the link from which you could download the PDF version of the article. Please read it before our April 18 lecture.
Roland Barthes, “Rhetoric of an Image”, Image, Music, Text

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