Barthes

[bahrt, bart]

noun

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

Barthes

/ 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)

Example Sentences

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

Roland Barthes was a French literary critic who worked in semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, just as Jung did.

From Salon

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

From Salon

Barthes expects irony to be done deliberately.

From Salon

Between Barthes and Berlant, Alanis gets to have the black fly in her chardonnay and drink it, too.

From Salon