Roland Barthes Flashcards by Bree Barber | Brainscape

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What did Barthes believe?

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Death of the Author: meaning that we should only evaluate the information itself and not try and decipher what the author intended
Text doesn’t have meaning - interpretation creates meaning
Surrealism

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Who is Roland Barthes?

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French theorist, critic & semiotician (20th Century)

- Studied social theory, semiotics & structuralism

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How do we use semiotics?

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Signifier: The word/image of what you are replicating

- Signified: The actual thing itself

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