Barthes

[ bahrt; French bart ]

noun

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

Barthes

/ bart /

noun

1. BarthesRoland19151980MFrenchWRITING: writerWRITING: criticWRITING: structuralist 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

Barthes himself did not live alone—he lived with his mother until the day she died.

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What the French theorist Roland Barthes can teach us about escaping loneliness.

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Even in this aspect Barthes did not validate the cliché of the solitary writer.

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“They had an understanding of each other and the life they wished to lead,” Howard said about Barthes and his mother.

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How to Live Together is quite different, composed of notes that Barthes probably never meant to publish.

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Of course, Barthes, but there is no need to go far into that matter; the terms are simple enough.

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The jerk had sent the knife through the sack about two inches, and it prodded Barthes in the hand.

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Four and seventy years of age as he now was, Barthes had spent nearly half a century in prison.

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Nicholas Barthes alone remained in the house and slept in a room on the first floor which Sophie had got ready for him.

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In many of his writings, Roland Barthes suggested characteristics of the oral and visual culture.

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