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Roland Barthes, an Uncommon card
Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Roland Barthes quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Roland Barthes card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His work engaged in the ______ of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture.
Answer
analysis. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. From the Roland Barthes article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Noether's theorem. Noether's theorem 81 · Roland Barthes 77 · G. H. Hardy 72 · Cartesian product 68 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture.
- His ideas explored a diverse range of fields, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism, and influenced the development of multiple schools of theory.
- Barthes is particularly notable for his 1957 essay collection Mythologies, which contained reflections on popular culture, and the 1967/1968 essay "The Death of the Author", which critiqued traditional approaches in literary criticism.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Roland Barthes article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Roland Barthes
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Roland Barthes (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
