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Roland Barthes: Mythologies (1957) Lecture 1 [Introduction] [What is Mythologies About?] [Interrogating the Obvious] [Mass Culture, Myth and the Mythologist] [Myth and Ideology] Lecture 2 [Mythologies: A Postwar Text] [The Intellectual and Mass Culture] [Mass Culture and the Intellectual] [The Politics of Mythologies] Lecture 3 [Barthes and Semiology] [Further Reading] Introduction Roland Barthes is a key figure in international intellectual life. He is one of the most important intellectual figures to have emerged in postwar France and his writings continue to have an influence on critical debates today. When he died in 1981, he left a body of major work but, as many of his friends and his admirers claimed, with still more important work to come. I can't possible hope to do justice to the diversity of his various writings here - I can only point you in the direction of Culler (1983), Moriarty (1991) and Rylance (1994) where you will find good accounts of his career - so I will plunge straightaway into a discussion of Mythologies, which is one of his earliest and most widely-read works. Mythologies is one of Barthes's most popular works because in it we see the intellectual as humourist, satirist, master stylist and debunker of the myths that surround us all in our daily lives. What is Mythologies About? Mythologies is a text which is not one but plural. It contains fifty-four (only twenty-eight in the Annette Lavers's English translation) short journalistic articles on a ...
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