Roland Barthes

As a scholar, Mr. Kermode sought to bring new ideas on literary theory into the classroom, helping introduce French theorists such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault into British academia in the 1960s.

British literary critic Frank Kermode dies at age 90 2010

He fundamentally changed the study of English literature in the 1960s by introducing French theory by post-structuralists such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, and post-Freudians such as Jacques Lacan, into what Sutherland described as "the torpid bloodstream of British academic discourse".

Celebrated critic Frank Kermode dies aged 90 2010

Literary critics such as Roland Barthes even proclaimed the Death of the Author.

Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009

I wasn't the only one doing this, Roland Barthes had done it of course, and others have too.

Fear And Clothing: Cintra Wilson's Fierce Fashion Prowess 2011

I felt like turning to Roland Barthes for advice on what to do.

Bernard Radfar: Texting Librarians Bernard Radfar 2011

Search hard, and phalluses appear among the squiggles though American critics sometimes confused them with carrots or rockets, and in 1961 the juicy Ferragosto paintings recreated the mid-August holiday with lurid colours and brown scatological smears, applied once again with the left hand: Roland Barthes aptly described them as gestures of "dirtying", "deranging the morality of the body".

Cy Twombly obituary 2011

And I realized I'm competing with the people who make seamless objects, where you have no clue how it was produced, like when Roland Barthes talked about plastic, how things appear to be miraculously produced, whether it's a diamond or a bucket.

Tom Sachs Tom Vanderbilt 2011

It's not necessary to know who Heidegger or Tillich are, nor must you have read Roland Barthes to feel the heartbreaking emotional thrust of Madeleine's obsession with his work, A Lover's Discourse, as she matches episodes of her frustrated love for Leonard with provocative passages from the book.

Daniel Kessel: The Marriage Plot -- An Ordinary Year in the Life of Three Liberal Arts Graduates? Daniel Kessel 2012

I felt like turning to Roland Barthes for advice on what to do.

Bernard Radfar: Texting Librarians Bernard Radfar 2011

I felt like turning to Roland Barthes for advice on what to do.

Bernard Radfar: Texting Librarians Bernard Radfar 2011