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

She found herself turning to Europe, where thinkers like Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida were asking radical questions about art, literature and culture, offering insights that enabled Professor Fuchs to explain what she was seeing in the cramped theaters of Lower Manhattan.

From New York Times

The best of Barthés’s figures make his Black sitters as directly available as possible to our eyes, the way a photo seems to.

From New York Times

Such writers were influenced by early-20th-century Modernists like Gertrude Stein, as well as by contemporary European post-structuralists like Roland Barthes, who shook the long-held assumption that a literary work necessarily comes from a single, stable authorial point of view, with a coherent, generally recognizable meaning.

From New York Times

The title of Briggs’ second book is also a reference to Barthes, whose work she has translated, and who called the novel “the long form.”

From Los Angeles Times

It’s easy to agree with the premise of Sophie Barthes’ gleaming, quasi-dystopian “The Pod Generation”: With every technological advance, we’re leeching what’s natural from our lives, and letting the simulations take over.

From Los Angeles Times