Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (/bɑːrt/;[4] French: [ʁɔlɑ̃ baʁt]; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980[5]) was a French philosopher.
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| Born | Roland Gérard Barthes 12 November 1915 |
| Died | 26 March 1980 (aged 64) |
| Education | University of Paris (BA, MA) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Structuralism Semiotics Post-structuralism |
| Institutions | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Collège de France |
Main interests | Semiotics (literary semiotics, semiotics of photography, comics semiotics, literary theory), narratology, linguistics |
Notable ideas | Structural analysis of narratives[1] Death of the author Writing degree zero Effect of reality |
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Life
Roland Barthes was born in 1915 Cherbourg in Normandy. His father was killed during World War I before his first birthday. He was raised by his mother, his aunt and grandmother in Bayonne. Barthes moved to Paris at the age of 11 with his family. Barthes was student in literature from 1935 to 1939 at the Sorbonne.
Career
In 1948, he taught with short-time positions at institutes in France, Romania, and Egypt. Then he studied lexicology and sociology and began to write bi-monthly essays for the magazine Les Lettres Nouvelles, a collection that was published in 1957. Consisting of fifty-four short essays, between 1954–1956, Mythologies were acute reflections of French popular culture ranging from an analysis on soap detergents to a dissection of popular wrestling.[6] Barthes taught at Middlebury College in 1957 and befriended the English translator of his work, Richard Howard, in New York City.[7] He taught in his classes at Middlebury. Michelet and Writing Degree Zero were published in France.
Barthes developed his literary criticism with new ideals of textuality and novelistic neutrality. In 1971, he was a professor at the University of Geneva and also taught at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
Works
Here are some of his works:
- (1953) Le degré zéro de l'écriture
- (1954) Michelet par lui-même
- (1978) Préface, La Parole Intermédiaire, F. Flahault, Seuil: Paris
- (1980) Recherche de Proust, Editions du Seuil: Paris.
- (1982) Littérature et réalité, Editions du Seuil: Paris.
- (1988) Michelet, Editions du Seuil: Paris.
References
Other websites
- Barthes, Roland. Incidents. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Free Online – UC Press E-Books Collection
- "Elements of Semiology" The first half of the book, from Marxists.com
- Roland Barthes by Philippe Sollers (in French)
- "Roland Barthes and Camera Lucida" by Ron Burnett
- Roland Barthes and Juri Lotman – special issue of Sign Systems Studies 44(3), 2016.
