Roland Barthes (nov 12, 1915 – mar 26, 1980)

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Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology, and post-structuralism.

The death of the Author:
According to Foster, what the author writes says something about his view, but his point of view differs from the readers their point of view. This means the author is no longer of import, only his writings will be. Language only knows a subject but not a person. This will mean that the viewer is free to have his own interpretation about the subject, but not about the author.

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