This Pass or Prepared? is based on:

• Carol Lloyd's I Was Michel Foucault's Love Slave, which appeared in Salon, in February 1997. Online.
  
• Read also, Roland Barthes in Dictionary of Cultural Theorists, Cashmore and Rojek, Published by Arnold, 1999. ISBN:0-340-64548-2 (pb), pp. 35-37.
  HARDCOPY TEXT.
  
• Read also, "Language and Speech," by Roland Barthes, in Contemporary Social Theory, pp. 48-60. HARDCOPY TEXT.
  

• Pass or Prepared? on Roland Barthes

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1. For what contribution to cultural theory is Roland Barthes best known?

2. Out of what tradition in social theory did Roland Barthes come?

3. What do you imagine Carol Lloyd meant by the "artifice of realism," based on what you have read of the sources for this exercise?