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Mythologies.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barthes, Roland.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Local Subjects:
- Philosophy.
- Summary:
- "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 express myths of success, well-being, or happiness. As Barthes sees if, these myths must be carefully deciphered, and debunked. What Barthes discerned in mass media 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 paperback 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 work-a lesson in clairvoyance that is more relevant now than ever. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Mythologies 1
- In the Ring 3
- The Harcourt Actor 15
- Romans in the Movies 19
- The Writer on Vacation 22
- The "Blue Blood" Cruise 26
- Criticism Blind and Dumb 29
- Saponids and Detergents 32
- The Poor and the Proletariat 35
- Martians 38
- Operation Astra 41
- Conjugals 44
- Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature 48
- Iconography of Abbé Pierre 53
- Novels and Children 56
- Toys 59
- Paris Not Flooded 62
- Bichon Among the Blacks 66
- A Sympathetic Worker 70
- Garbo's Face 73
- Power and "Cool" 76
- Wine and Milk 79
- Steak-Frites 83
- The Nautilus and the Bateau ivre 86
- Depth Advertising 89
- A Few Words from Monsieur Poujade 92
- Adamov and Language 96
- Einstein's Brain 100
- The Jet-Man 103
- Racine Is Racine 106
- Billy Graham at the Vel' d'Hiv' 109
- The Dupriez Trial 113
- Shock Photos 116
- Two Myths of the New Theater 119
- The Tour de France as Epic 122
- The Blue Guide 134
- Agony Columns 138
- Ornamental Cuisine 142
- The Batory Cruise 145
- The Man in the Street on Strike 149
- African Grammar 153
- Neither/Nor Criticism 161
- Striptease 165
- The New Citroën 169
- Literature According to Minou Drouet 172
- Electoral Photogeny 181
- Lost Continent 184
- Astrology 187
- The Bourgeois Art of Song 190
- Plastic 193
- The Great Family of Man 196
- At the Music Hall 200
- The Lady of the Camellias 203
- Poujade and the Intellectuals 206
- Part II Myth Today 215.
- ISBN:
- 9780809071944
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