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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barthes, Roland (Author)
Other Authors: Lavers, Annette (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Noonday Press, [1972]
Subjects:
Culture.
Semiotics.
Signs and symbols.
French essays.
Judgment (Logic)
Semantics.
France > Social life and customs.
France > Civilization.
Semantics
Jugement (Logique)
Sémantique.
France > Mœurs et coutumes.
France > Civilisation.
Signes et symboles.
Essais français.
symbols.
semantics.
Manners and customs
Civilization
Culture
French essays
Semiotics
Signs and symbols
France
Mythology.
Table of Contents:
  • MYTHOLOGIES
  • 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 proetariat
  • 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 Citroèën
  • Photography and electoral appeal
  • The Lost Continent
  • Plastic
  • The great family of man
  • The Lady of the Camellias
  • MYTH TODAY
  • Myth is a type of speech
  • myth as a semiologicaL system
  • The form and the concept
  • the signification
  • Reading and deciphering myth
  • myth as stolen language
  • The bourgeoisie as a joint-stock company
  • Myth is depoliticized speech
  • myth on the left
  • Myth on the right
  • necessity and limits of mythology.