Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.
Read more about Roland Barthes: Life, Influence, Key Terms, Criticism, In Popular Culture, Bibliography, Works On Roland Barthes
Famous quotes by roland barthes:
“What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madman’s question: ‘Who am I?’, but the comic question, the Bewildered Man’s question: ‘Am I?’ A comic—a comedian, that’s what the Journal keeper is.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“The photographic image ... is a message without a code.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)