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By Professor Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers (Translator), Christine Terhune Herrick
ISBN: 9780374521509 ASIN: B001MSXKIS ASIN: B00A2M75WC
Published: 1972
Number of Pages: 160
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback |
Pricing & Availability:Additional Details:
Product Type: Book
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Description: "[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 bad faith 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 |
Library of Congress Control Number
- LC control Number:
75185427 International Standard Book Number:
0374521506:
0374521506 (pbk.) : - Terms of availability:
$5.95 - Canceled/invalid ISBN:
0374521506 (pbk.) - Canceled/invalid ISBN:
0808071932Level of Bibliographic Control and Coding Detail:
030688165:
CIRC:
306.0944 B285M 1972 c.1Language Code
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title:
eng - Language code of text/sound track or separate title:
engfre - Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text:
freLibrary of Congress Call Number
- Classification number:
AC25 - Item number:
.B3132 1972b - Item number:
.B3132 1988Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- Classification number:
081Main Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Barthes, Roland.Uniform Title:
Mythologies. - Language of a work:
EnglishTitle Statement
- Title:
Mythologies / - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Roland Barthes ; selected and translated from the French by Annette Lavers.Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
- Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
New York : - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Hill and Wang, - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Noonday Press, - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Noonday, - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1972. - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1988. - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
c1972.Physical Description
- Extent:
158 p. ; - Dimensions:
21 cm.Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
- Topical term or geographic name entry element:
French essays. - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Mythology - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Popular culture - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Semantics. - Geographic subdivision:
France.Subject Added Entry - Geographic Name
- Geographic name:
France - General subdivision:
Social life and customs.Added Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Lavers, Annette.