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Mythologies / Roland Barthes ; selected and translated from the French by Annette Lavers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Hill and Wang, 1972.Description: 158 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0374521506 (pbk.)
  • 080901369X (pbk)
  • 0809071932
  • 9780374521509 (pbk.)
  • 9780809013692 (pbk)
  • 9780809071937
Uniform titles:
  • Mythologies. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
The world of wrestling -- The Romans in films -- The writer on holiday -- The "blue blood" cruise -- Blind and dumb criticism -- Soap-powders and detergents -- The poor and the proletariat -- Operation margarine -- Dominici, or the triumph of literature -- The iconography of the Abbé Pierre -- Novels and children -- Toys -- The face of Garbo -- Wine and milk -- Steak and chips -- The Nautilus and the drunken boat -- The brain of Einstein -- The jet-man -- The blue guide -- Ornamental cookery -- Neither-nor criticism -- Striptease -- The new Citroën -- Photography and electoral appeal -- The Lost Continent -- Plastic -- The great family of man -- The Lady of the Camellias.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 844.914 B285 Available Water damage on bottom of last half of pages 33111006770354
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"[ Mythologies ] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the badfaith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, true, necessary, instead of arbitrary, made, contingent. Mythologies finds Barthes revealing the fashioned systems of ideas that make it possible, for example, for 'Einstein's brain' to stand for, be the myth of, 'a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as a functional labor analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, reservoir of manufactured sense."--Edward W. Said

Includes bibliographical references.

The world of wrestling -- The Romans in films -- The writer on holiday -- The "blue blood" cruise -- Blind and dumb criticism -- Soap-powders and detergents -- The poor and the proletariat -- Operation margarine -- Dominici, or the triumph of literature -- The iconography of the Abbé Pierre -- Novels and children -- Toys -- The face of Garbo -- Wine and milk -- Steak and chips -- The Nautilus and the drunken boat -- The brain of Einstein -- The jet-man -- The blue guide -- Ornamental cookery -- Neither-nor criticism -- Striptease -- The new Citroën -- Photography and electoral appeal -- The Lost Continent -- Plastic -- The great family of man -- The Lady of the Camellias.

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