![]() ![]() Roland Barthes was born on 12 November 1915 in the town of Cherbourg in Normandy. ![]() During his academic career he was primarily associated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Collège de France. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields and influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism.īarthes is perhaps best known for his 1957 essay collection Mythologies, which contained reflections on popular culture, and 1967 essay " The Death of the Author," which critiqued traditional approaches in literary criticism. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. Roland Gérard Barthes ( / b ɑːr t/ French: 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980 ) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. ![]()
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