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    Collège de France. Roland Barthes was born on 12 November 1915 in the town of Cherbourg in Normandy. His father, naval officer Louis Barthes, was killed in...
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  • a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice...
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  • Writers whose works are often characterised as post-structuralist include Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard...
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  • theorist Roland Barthes discussed and reevaluated the concept of atopy multiple times in his work. In A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, Barthes defined it...
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  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Barthes, Roland. ([1957] 1987). Mythologies. New York: Hill & Wang. Barthes, Roland ([1964] 1967). Elements of Semiology...
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  • S/Z (category Books by Roland Barthes)
    S/Z, published in 1970, is Roland Barthes' structural analysis of "Sarrasine", the short story by Honoré de Balzac. Barthes methodically moves through...
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  • Camera Lucida (book) (category Books by Roland Barthes)
    theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes. It is simultaneously an inquiry into the nature and essence of photography and a eulogy to Barthes' late mother. The...
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  • Mythologies (book) (category Books by Roland Barthes)
    Mythologies (French: Mythologies, lit. 'Mythologies') is a 1957 book by Roland Barthes. It is a collection of essays first published from 1954 to 1956 in the...
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    In an English-language edition, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag provide critical comment on the events. Roland Barthes published the original French version...
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  • Writing Degree Zero (category Books by Roland Barthes)
    literary criticism by Roland Barthes. First published in 1953, it was Barthes' first full-length book and was intended, as Barthes writes in the introduction...
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    Roland Barthes: A Biography. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34987-3. OCLC 31295073. Barthes, Roland (1994) [1975]. Roland Barthes...
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    the subject of a semiotic analysis by the French cultural theorist Roland Barthes in his 1957 work Mythologies. Steak frites prepared using flank steak...
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  • A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (category Books by Roland Barthes)
    Fragments (French: Fragments d’un discours amoureux) is a 1977 book by Roland Barthes. It contains a list of "fragments", some of which come from literature...
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  • Incidents (category Books by Roland Barthes)
    is a 1987 collection of four essays by Roland Barthes. It was published posthumously by François Wahl, Barthes' literary executor. In the first essay...
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  • preface to his Essais Critiques (1971) and later in his Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes (1975); in the latter, the persistence of the form of the ship...
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    Jacques Derrida, Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and literary critic Roland Barthes. Though elements of their work necessarily relate to structuralism and...
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    Although it was critically acclaimed by Maurice Blanchot, Michel Serres, Roland Barthes, Gaston Bachelard, and Fernand Braudel, it was largely ignored by the...
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  • The Pleasure of the Text (category Books by Roland Barthes)
    (French: Le Plaisir du Texte) is a 1973 book by the literary theorist Roland Barthes. Barthes sets out some of his ideas about literary theory. He divides the...
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  • as a result of the expenditure of the "life force". Literary critic Roland Barthes spoke of la petite mort as the chief objective of reading literature...
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    prominent intellectuals including Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, and Roland Barthes published studies of his work and numerous biographies have appeared...
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  • Roland Barthes was one of the first people to study the semiotics of images. He developed a way to understand the meaning of images. Most of Barthes'...
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    Algirdas Greimas, psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and literary theorist Roland Barthes. Like structuralists, post-structuralists start from the assumption...
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  • Modern semiotics draws its inspiration from the work of, inter alios, Roland Barthes (1915–1980), who argued that semiotics should expand its scope and concern:...
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  • doctoral thesis under the dissertation committee of Henri Lefebvre, Roland Barthes, and Pierre Bourdieu. In his early books, such as The System of Objects...
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    signifier becoming more important than the signified. French semiotician Roland Barthes used signs to explain the concept of connotation—cultural meanings attached...
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    1965. The case was discussed by the literary theorist Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies. Barthes argues that Dominici was denied a fair trial because...
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    nobleman and general Roland Bäckman (born 1960), Swedish politician Roland Bailey, American football cornerback known as "Champ" Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French...
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  • d'Eaubonne, René Schérer, Pierre Guyotat, Louis Aragon, Francis Ponge, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Philippe Sollers, Patrice Chéreau, Bernard Kouchner...
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  • textual device identified by Roland Barthes, the purpose of which was to establish literary texts as realistic. Barthes first suggested this concept in...
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  • as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have examined the role and relevance of authorship to the meaning or interpretation of a literary text. Barthes challenges...
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