Textual analysis

Author's name: Roland Barthes Publisher: Al-Takween for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2009 Literary classification: Literature Book overview: For the author of the book "Textual Analysis" by Roland Barthes and the author of 15 other books. Roland Barthes (French: Roland Barthes) was a French philosopher, critic, literary writer, semiotician, and social theorist. He was born in Cherbourg, France, on November 12, 1915, and died in Paris on March 25, 1980. His works expanded to include many intellectual fields. He became famous for his structuralist and semiotic studies and left a wide impact on literary critical studies. He influenced the development of several schools such as structuralism, Marxism, post-structuralism, and existentialism, in addition to his influence on the development of semiotics. Roland Barthes's works are divided between structuralism and post-structuralism, as he moved from the former to the latter, following many philosophers of his era and school. He is also considered one of the great figures—alongside Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and others—in the intellectual movement called postmodernism. Barthes studied at the University of Paris and taught at several French academic institutions, including the National Center for Scientific Research and the École pratique des hautes études. In 1976, he was chosen to hold the first chair of literary semiotics at the Collège de France. Barthes left behind many writings and articles, some of which were published after his death. Among his most famous works are "Writing Degree Zero" (1953); "Mythologies" (1957); "Critical Essays" (1964), in addition to a study on the French writer Racine, and two books about his autobiography: "Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes" (1975) and "The Lover's Discourse" (1977). In these books, Barthes's multifaceted personality and interests are evident, whether in his early formalist phase, his orientation towards structuralism and his rejection of it, or his interest in studying signs in culture and how to interpret them, known as semiotics. Many of these works have been translated into numerous languages, including Arabic.