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    Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist and critic who helped establish structuralism and New Criticism. He studied classical letters and philology at the University of Paris. Barthes went on to hold the first chair of literary semiology at the Collège de France. His theories contained brilliant insights and influenced thinkers like Michel Foucault. Some of Barthes' most notable works included Le Degré zéro de l’écriture and Fragments d’un discours amoureux. He died at age 64 after a car accident.

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    Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist and critic who helped establish structuralism and New Criticism. He studied classical letters and philology at the University of Paris. Barthes went on to hold the first chair of literary semiology at the Collège de France. His theories contained brilliant insights and influenced thinkers like Michel Foucault. Some of Barthes' most notable works included Le Degré zéro de l’écriture and Fragments d’un discours amoureux. He died at age 64 after a car accident.

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    Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist and critic who helped establish structuralism and New Criticism. He studied classical letters and philology at the University of Paris. Barthes went on to hold the first chair of literary semiology at the Collège de France. His theories contained brilliant insights and influenced thinkers like Michel Foucault. Some of Barthes' most notable works included Le Degré zéro de l’écriture and Fragments d’un discours amoureux. He died at age 64 after a car accident.

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    Practical work 5
    Write the synthesis of a biography of a person related to your area of studies in about
    200 words.
    Biography of Roland Barthes
    Roland Barthes was a French essayist, social critic and literary critic whose writings on
    semiotic, the formal study of symbols and signs, became instrumental in the
    establishment of structuralism and the New Criticism as main intellectual movements.
    He was born in 1915 in Cherbourg, France. Afterward, he studied classical
    letters (1939), grammar and philology (1943) at the University of Paris. Besides, he was
    appointed to the École Pratique des Hautes Études after working (1952-1959) at the
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Furtermore, he was the first person to
    hold the chair of literary semiology at the Collège de France in 1939.
    Barthes’s literary style is stimulating, sometimes eccentric and needlessly
    obscure. His theories contained brilliant insight, although some said they were not.
    However, by 1970 Barthes's intellectual influence was immense even outside of France.
    Michel Foucault was influenced by him.
    He first book was Le Degré zéro de l’écriture (1953) and the most popular was
    Fragments d’un discours amoureux (1977). Barthes died at the age of 64 after suffering
    a car accident that left him badly injured. Several posthumous collections of his writings
    were published, and in the last volume Barthes's homosexuality, which he had not
    publicly acknowledged, was revealed.

    Writing paragraphs
    9A. put sentences a) – d) in the correct paragraphs to complete the profile of Albert
    Schweitzer:
    1-c
    2-a
    3-d
    4-b

    B. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph:


    Introduction: 1-c
    Childhood and education: 2-a
    Rise to fame: 3-d
    Achievements and later life: 4-b
    Source
    Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2022, October 10). Roland
    Barthes. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roland-
    Gerard-Barthes

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