9780809071944-0809071940-Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

ISBN-13: 9780809071944
ISBN-10: 0809071940
Edition: Second
Author: Roland Barthes
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780809071944
ISBN-10: 0809071940
Edition: Second
Author: Roland Barthes
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation (ISBN-13: 9780809071944 and ISBN-10: 0809071940), written by authors Roland Barthes, was published by Hill and Wang in 2013. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Folklore & Mythology (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Folklore & Mythology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.65.

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"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 are the fabrications of consumer society. They express myths of success, well-being, or happiness. As Barthes sees it, these myths must be carefully deciphered, and debunked.

What Barthes discerned in mass media, the fashion of plastic, 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 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―a lesson in clairvoyance that is more relevant now than ever.

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