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Barthesian
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English
Etymology
en fr barthésien or en Barthes ian.
Adjective
Of or relating to Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician who influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and poststructuralism.
Translations
of or relating to Roland Barthes
French: fr barthésien m
Noun
A proponent of the theories of Roland Barthes.
en 2000 Roger D. Sell Literature as Communication 93 At their most de-humanizing, the Barthesians see authors as repeating something that has been done before, so that they are rather characterless.
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