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Roland Barthes
Researcher at Kenyon College
Publications - 197
Citations - 25153
Roland Barthes is an academic researcher from Kenyon College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Criticism & Narrative. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 195 publications receiving 24529 citations.
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
TL;DR: Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography in Reflections on Photography as mentioned in this paper, examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death.
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The Pleasure of the Text
TL;DR: Affirmation babel prattle edges brio split community body commentary drift expression right exchange hearing emotion boredom inside out exactitude fetish war image-reservoirs intertext isotrope tongue reading mandarinate modern nihilism nomination obscurantism oedipus fear sentence pleasure politics daily recuperation representation oppositions dream science significance subject theory value voice as mentioned in this paper.
The Death of the Author
TL;DR: In this article, the author Sarrasine Balzac, describing a castrato disguised as a woman, writes the following sentence: ‘This was woman herself, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims, her instinctive worries, her impetuous boldness, her fussings, and her delicious sensibility.
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Elements of Semiology
TL;DR: Semi-Linguistics is a tentative science as discussed by the authors, which aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification.