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Roland Gerard Barthes
(
;
[4]
French:
[??l?? ba?t]
; 12 November 1915 ? 26 March 1980
[5]
) was a
French
philosopher
.
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
.
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
Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales
(EHESS).
Here are some of his works:
- (1953)
Le degre zero de l'ecriture
- (1954)
Michelet par lui-meme
- (1978)
Preface
, La Parole Intermediaire, F. Flahault, Seuil: Paris
- (1980)
Recherche de Proust
, Editions du Seuil: Paris.
- (1982)
Litterature et realite
, Editions du Seuil: Paris.
- (1988)
Michelet
, Editions du Seuil: Paris.
- ↑
Roland Barthes,
"Introduction a l'analyse structurale des recits"
,
Communications
,
8
(1), 1966, pp. 1?27, translated as "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives", in: Roland Barthes,
Image?Music?Text
, essays selected and translated by Stephen Heath, New York 1977, pp. 79?124.
- ↑
Reda Bensmaia,
The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text
, University of Minnesota Press, 1987, p. 112 n. 74: "On all these pages [of
Le plaisir du texte
], Barthes refers directly to Nietzsche whom he quotes, mentions, or "translates" freely."
- ↑
Dunn, Hopeton S. (2014). "A Tribute to Stuart Hall".
Critical Arts
.
28
(4): 758.
doi
:
10.1080/02560046.2014.929228
.
ISSN
1992-6049
.
S2CID
144415843
.
- ↑
"Barthes"
.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
.
- ↑
McQuillan, Martin (2011).
Roland Barthes
. Macmillan International Higher Education. pp. 10, 29.
ISBN
9780230343894
.
[
permanent dead link
]
- ↑
Huppatz, D.J. (2011). "Roland Barthes, Mythologies".
Design and Culture
.
3
(1): 85?100.
doi
:
10.2752/175470810X12863771378833
.
S2CID
144391627
.
- ↑
Richard Howard. "Remembering Roland Barthes,"
The Nation
(20 November 1982): "Mutual friends brought us together in 1957. He came to my door in the summer of that year, disconcerted by his classes at Middlebury (teaching students unaccustomed to a visitor with no English to speak of) and bearing, by way of introduction, a fresh-printed copy of
Mythologies
. (
Michelet
and
Writing Degree Zero
had already been published in France, but he was not yet known in America?not even in most French departments. Middlebury was enterprising.)" Reprinted in
Signs in Culture: Roland Barthes Today
, edited by Steven Ungar and Betty R. McGraw, University of Iowa Press, 1989, p. 32 (
ISBN
0-877-45245-8
).