Roland Barthes

(1915–1980) Mythographer France

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Roland Barthes was a mythographer from France, best known for Mythologies.

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He explored fields such as structuralism, anthropology, literary theory and post‑structuralism, and his ideas helped shape several schools of theory.

Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of…

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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the…

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