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Roland Barthes 1915 – 1980
- France
French critic. Barthes was one of the founding figures in the theoretical
movement centered around the journal Tel Quel. In his earlier works,
such as Writing Degree Zero (tr. 1953) and Mythologies (1957,
tr. 1972), he argued that literature, like all forms of communication, is
essentially a system of signs. As such, he argued that it encodes various
ideologies or “myths,” to be decoded in terms of its own organizing
principles or internal structures. He was strongly influenced by the
linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, and his ideas, as expressed in works such as
S/Z (1970, tr. 1974) and Empire of Signs (1970, tr. 1982),
became more eclectic. Barthes has had an enormous influence on American
literary theory. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
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- LE DEGRÉ ZÉRO DE L'ÉCRITURE, 1953 - Writing Degree Zero
- MICHELET PAR LUI MÊME, 1954 - Michele by Himself
- MYTHOLOGIES, 1957 - Mythologies (selected trans. by Annette Lavers) -
Mytologioita
- SUR RACINE, 1963 - On Racine
- LA TOUR EIFFEL, 1964 - The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
- ESSAIS CRITIQUES, 1964 - Critical Essays
- ELÉMENTS DE SÉMIOLOGIE, 1964 - Elements of Semiology
- CRITIQUE ET VÉRITÉ, 1966 - Criticism and Truth
- SYSTÈME DE LA MODE, 1967 - The Fashion System
- S/Z, 1970
- L'EMPIRE DES SIGNES, 1970 - Empire of Signs
- SADE, FOURIER, LOYOLA, 1971
- NOUVEAUX ESSAIS CRITIQUES, 1972 - New Critical Essays
- LE PLAISIR DU TEXTE, 1973 - The Pleasure of Text - Tekstin hurma
- ERTÉ, 1975
- POURQUOI LA CHINE?, 1976
- ROLAND BARTHES PAR ROLAND BARTHES, 1977 - Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
- Image-Music-Text, 1977 (essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath)
- FRAGMENTS D'UN DISCOURS AMOUREUX, 1977 - A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
- LEÇON INAUGURALE AU COLLÈGE DE FRANCE, 1978
- SOLLERS, ÉCRIVAIN, 1979 - Sollers, Writer
- LA CHAMBRE CLAIRE, 1980 - Camera Lucinda - Valoisa huone
- Barthes Reader, 1980
- L'OBVIE ET L'OBTUS, 1982 - The Responsibility of Forms
- LE BRUISSEMENT DE LA LANGUE, 1984 - The Rustle of Language
- L'AVENTURE SÉMIOLOGIQUE, 1985 - The Semiotic Challenge
- INCIDENTS, 1987
- ŒUVRES COMPLÈTES, 1993-95 (3 vols.)
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Roland Barthes
See studies by J. Culler (1983), P. Lombardo (1989), and M. B. Wiseman
(1989).
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