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English
Etymology
Calque of French barthésien or Barthes + -ian.
Adjective
Barthesian (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
of or relating to Roland Barthes
Noun
Barthesian (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.