Barthes

American  

[bahrt, bart] / bɑrt, bært /

noun

1. Roland, 1915–80, French literary critic, philosopher, and semiotician.

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Barthes British  

/ bart /

noun

1. Roland . 1915–80, French writer and critic, who applied structuralist theory to literature and popular culture: his books include Mythologies (1957) and Elements of Semiology (1964)

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Example Sentences

Of this lineup of serial offenders, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty had prior convictions, mostly for communism, and only Barthes had a sense of humor.

From The Wall Street Journal

“For me, color is an artifice,” the French philosopher Roland Barthes wrote in 1980.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Irony does not involve the simple substitution of the opposite for the literal meaning,” said Barthes in “Elements of Semiology.”

From Salon

The next slide is a quotation by Roland Barthes about his own mother in “Camera Lucida”: “I dream about her, I do not dream her. And confronted with the photograph, as in the dream, it is the same effort, the same Sisyphean labor: to reascend, straining toward the essence, to climb back down without having seen it, and to begin all over again.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Irony does not involve the simple substitution of the opposite for the literal meaning,” said Barthes in "Elements of Semiology."

From Salon