Roland Gérard Barthes (12 Nov 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, 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. He was particularly known for developing and extending the field of semiotics through the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His works include; Le degré zéro de l'écriture(1953), Michelet par lui-même(1954), Mythologies, Seuil: Paris.(1957) Less