Cento e uno anni di Barthes (1915-2016)

In the occasion of the centenary of Roland Barthes’ birth (1915-1980), Ocula’s editorial board has decided to dedicate a special issue to the scholar who is recognized as the one who has laid the foundations of a semiotic approach to popular culture. We pay this homage by publishing three essays written by Isabella Pezzini, Gianfranco Marrone and Marcel Danesi, to whom we have asked an intellectual testimony on Barthes as a semiotician.