Roland Barthes

1) The relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat has been an ever-changing alliance since the dawn of capitalism. With the new methods of communication erupting over the course of time, the ability to control the masses has become significantly easier. In modern society today, pop culture has figuratively become the main source to how people choose to live their lives. From musicians to socialites and actors, the public turns to the hottest figures in media to understand the…

Petr Král in his book ZÁKLADNÍ POJMY composes with hundred brief proses, as Kundera writes in the introduction, an unusual and beautiful existential encyclopedia of the everyday life. The look of Král is placed on everything: objects, moments, feelings, places, and his texts are like a walk in the city, small trips, intense poetic proses that illuminate the details, open our eyes on reality and sustains us all . In his stories the apparently futile, the fragile places of the everyday life…

In Media Studies, it is significant to state the difference between the narrative and story. According to K. R. Jennings (2015) “A story is a structured narrative. It has a beginning, middle and end. It typically contains other ingredients too, like characters and a plot.” Furthermore Jennings states that “a narrative, on the other hand, is a sequence of events. It has no standard form or structure. No distinct beginning or end.” Simply put, narrative is principally the order in which something…

breaks what is called “the fourth wall” and destroys the barriers between the world that is created and its creator. Examples of this have been seen throughout the history of writing, but the term itself was not coined until 1970—three years after Roland Barthes wrote his infamous essay “The Death of the Author” (even Atwood comments in the prelude at how disappointed she was that someone else came up with the…

Its principles - conceptual, irony, parody, secondary, impersonality, citationality. Liotar (born in 1924.), Roland Barthes (1915 - 1980), U. Eko (., Born in 1932) is considered any work of art as a specific text, built and evolving beyond the laws of the genre, and song, and representing a collage of statements, quotations, allusions and metaphors. Reviving romantic…

This question leads to an extended list of other similar questions: what is the point of showing details of a dead body? Why is it exhibited in an art gallery? Is it a piece of art? Is observing death and suffering from a distance, and from the safe room of the gallery, pleasurable to the viewer? Does the interaction with death become entertaining and acceptable because of the detachment from the situation? On the other hand, does the exposed dead body contribute to the history of the place…

According to Roland Barthes’ myth formula, a sign acts as a signifier when society assigns it a widely accepted meaning. The meaning of the sign, called the signified, makes a sign logical. Walmart aligns with the mythical concept by using the happy face as a signifier.…

inside it as in a Trojan horse, camouflaged, for the moment, as if it were nearly identical: its doppelganger, only better”. The first paragraph of into the digital by Ritchin, I chose to recite these words in my discussion because it reminds me of Roland Barthes ‘Camera…

the idea of intrinsic merit and necessary differentiation between persons, calling it offensive, similar to society’s stigmatization of mental illness. Throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the author J.D. Salinger frequently alludes to Roland Barthes’ quote that “literature is the question minus the answer.” One of the most prevalent questions that arises is ‘what is wrong with Holden Caulfield?’ From the beginning of the novel, Salinger hints that Holden has some sort of issue. This…

The Ethics of Toys and Occupations Even before babies are born they are given, and expected to follow gender stereotypes and norms. Parents paint the walls pink in a little girl’s room, and blue in a little boys room. This concept of gendering inanimate objects is consistent throughout a person’s entire life. The toys and games commonly given to children during their lives perpetuate these stereotypes and lead them to think that they must behave and present themselves in certain ways. An…