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| Title | : | Mythologies |
| Author | : | Roland Barthes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | 1972 by Hill and Wang (first published 1957) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Theory. Cultural. France. Fantasy. Mythology |
Roland Barthes
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"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way readers and philosophers view the world around them.Our age is a triumph of codification. We own devices that bring the world to the command of our fingertips. We have access to boundless information and prodigious quantities of stuff. We decide to like or not, to believe or not, to buy or not. We pick and choose. We think we are free. Yet all around us, in pop culture, politics, mainstream media, and advertising, there are codes and symbols that govern our choices. They are the fabrications of consumer society. They express myths of success, well-being, and happiness. As Barthes sees it, these myths must be carefully deciphered, and debunked.
What Barthes discerned in mass media, the fashion of plastic, and the politics of postcolonial France applies with equal force to today's social networks, the iPhone, and the images of 9/11. This new edition of Mythologies, complete and beautifully rendered by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, critic, and translator Richard Howard, is a consecration of Barthes's classic—a lesson in clairvoyance that is more relevant now than ever.
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| Original Title: | Mythologies |
| ISBN: | 0374521506 (ISBN13: 9780374521509) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.1 From 12687 Users | 501 ReviewsCritique Based On Books Mythologies
"We pick up Derrida's Of Grammatology when we want to wrestle with the idea of play. We pick up Barthes' Mythologies when we want to play with the idea of wrestling."Samuel R. DelanyThe second part of the book "Myth today", which is some kind of theory of myth, I think is one of the basic work for studying of the Culture.
In high school, I used to attend the wrestling meets. I'm not sure why. I hated spectator sports, having endured a brief period of sullen cheerleading where I found myself unable to whip up a frenzy over first downs or sis-boom-bah on command.Among the high school wrestlers I watched, there were some who elicited greater and lesser degrees of sympathy or repugnance, while one--though otherwise an inarticulate hulk--was transformed on the mat into a figure of grace, performing pins swiftly and
On Arranging My LibraryArranging a library is no easy task:I think Tolkien will be happy to share his spaceWith Virgil and Homer,In my Library.While I can feel the glare in my back as I stackNabokov next to that one copy of Dan Brown I own.Arranging a library is no easy task:To do so this seriously is almost to practiceIn an amateurish and private fashion,The art of literary criticism.And once that notion entered my library,My authors took to their relative positionsWith none of that
This is a great, thought-provoking set of essays that suffers from age, despite the lasting relevance of its core arguments. My main gripe was that Barthes' method of choosing bits of contemporary pop culture to illustrate his arguments is of course destined to become dated, and so a few of the chapters when over my head. I'm just not familiar with Chaplin or the Dominici Trial, and I don't know who or what the Abbé Pierre is. However, the central arguments were easy to grasp despite this, and I
I only had to read half of Roland Barthes' Mythologies for my Critical Theory class, but I was so engrossed that I set aside George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones (you'll understand how impressive that is if I ever get to that review) and spent a day of my spring break reading the whole thing. In Mythologies, Barthes, a theorist I previously (and less amiably) met during my Media and Rhetoric class, does a semiotic reading of different aspects of society in order to identify the ideological
I am not a huge critical lit reader but there is something so enjoyable about Barthes' books or essays. I like the way he writes about an everyday object or subject matter - and just tears into it like a very curious scientist. "Mythologies" is one of his more well-known titles and rightfully so. Good writer and I think he's a great reader as well.
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