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9 unusual facts about Roland Barthes


Emrah Altinok

These inscriptions that look like drawing and handwriting evoked some works of Roland Barthes and Henri Michaux.

Fiction theory

The French scholar Roland Barthes designed a system of five major codes that function as tools to analyze narrative texts in ways that move beyond examinations of plot and structure, thereby bringing to the surface the subtle ways a text becomes a literary narrative.

Franco Fortini

He was associated with some of the most important European writers and intellectuals, such as Sartre, Brecht, Barthes and Lukács.

Roland Barthes

A text can be reversible by avoiding the restrictive devices that Sarrasine suffered from such as strict timelines and exact definitions of events.

Jeffrey Eugenides's "The Marriage Plot" draws out excerpts from Barthes's "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments" as a way to depict the unique intricacies of love that one of the main characters, Madeleine Hanna, experiences throughout the novel.

In his S/Z (1970), Barthes applies this notion in an analysis of a short story by Balzac called Sarrasine.

Jean-Louis de Rambures, Interview with Roland Barthes in: "Comment travaillent les écrivains", Paris: Flammarion, 1978

Shridhar Tilve

He has criticised on Post Modernism sponsored by Euro-centric or Americo-centric methodology, constructed by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard.

Situation Room

The New York Times commented on Clinton's expression in the photograph, writing, "She is what the French critic Roland Barthes called the 'punctum,' the not necessarily conspicuous detail that gives a photograph its emotional resonance."


Alberto Ruy Sánchez

He took writing seminars from his thesis director Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière and André Chastel and received a PhD from the University of Paris.

Ground Zero Gallery

In its inception, the comic was heavily influenced by the philosophy of Roland Barthes, deconstructionism and film-maker Jean Marie Straub.

Jacket Full of Danger

The album's cover art is an illustrated photograph by American artist Galen Pehrson and was featured in ArtForum 10.6Vol-9UK The image depicts Green with a suite of illustrated characters, each character refers or symbolizes a social theorist, philosopher, or semiotician: Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, and most notable Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan engaged in a "dance".

Jouissance

The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a known Lacanian theorist, has adopted the term in his philosophy; it may also be seen in the works, both joint and individual, of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and it plays an important role in the writing of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes.

Sandy Smith

The essay was to prove that Junior is the best film ever made, and reference various philosophers and thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud and Marc Augé amongst others.


see also

Reality Effect

:For the literary concept by Roland Barthes, see Effect of Reality.