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Barthes 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) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Yet while Barthes had the good sense to admit that his influential conception of "the death of the author" was merely the extravagant jeu d'esprit of a playful interpreter, the great majority of his ponderous imitators, particularly in America, did not. The program was Gloria, O Rangasayee, and Championship Wrestling after Roland Barthes, and it just blew me away. Roland Barthes was fascinated by the Argo, "each piece of which," according to him (though he apparently got the story wrong), "the Argonauts gradually replaced, so that they ended with an entirely new ship, without having to alter either its name or its form. |
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