Barthesian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of French barthésien or Barthes + -ian.
Adjective[edit]
Barthesian (comparative more Barthesian, superlative most Barthesian)
- 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[edit]
of or relating to Roland Barthes
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Noun[edit]
Barthesian (plural Barthesians)
- A proponent of the theories of Roland Barthes.
- 2000, Roger D. Sell, Literature as Communication, page 93:
- At their most de-humanizing, the Barthesians see authors as repeating something that has been done before, so that they are rather characterless.