Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March<!--Britannica Online Encyclopedia gives 25 March--> 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields and influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism. Wikipedia
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