Roland Barthes
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| Born | Roland Gérard Barthes 12 November 1915 Cherbourg, France |
| Died | 25 March 1980 (aged 64) Paris, France |
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| Education | University of Paris (BA, MA) |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Structuralism Semiotics Post-structuralism |
| Institutions | University of Paris VIII École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Collège de France |
| Main interests | Semiotics (literary semiotics, semiotics of photography, comics semiotics, literary theory), narratology, linguistics |
| Notable works | Writing Degree Zero (1953) Mythologies (1957) "The Death of the Author" (1967) |
| Notable ideas | texte lisible vs texte scriptible Structural analysis of narratives[1] Effect of reality |
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Roland Gérard Barthes (/bɑːrt/;[2] French: [ʁɔlɑ̃ baʁt]; 12 November 1915 – 25 March 1980)[3] was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture.[4] His ideas explored a diverse range of fields and influenced the development of multiple schools of theory, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism.
Barthes is perhaps best known for his 1957 essay collection Mythologies, which contained reflections on popular culture, and the 1967/1968 essay "The Death of the Author", which critiqued traditional approaches in literary criticism. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Collège de France.
- ^ Roland Barthes, "Introduction à l'analyse structurale des récits", Communications, 8(1), 1966, pp. 1–27, translated as "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives", in: Roland Barthes, Image–Music–Text, essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath, New York 1977, pp. 79–124.
- ^ "Barthes". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
- ^ McQuillan, Martin (2011). Roland Barthes. Macmillan International Higher Education. pp. 10, 29. ISBN 9780230343894.
- ^ Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 33.