Barthesian
English
editEtymology
editCalque of French barthésien or Barthes + -ian.
Adjective
editBarthesian (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
editof or relating to Roland Barthes
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Noun
editBarthesian (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.