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Barthes

[bahrt; Fr. bart]

noun

Roland, 1915–80, French literary critic, philosopher, and semiotician.

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Barthes (French bart)

—n
	Roland. 1915--80, French writer and critic, who applied structuralist theory to literature and popular culture: his books include Mythologies (1957) and Elements of Semiology (1964)

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