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Mythologies (French: Mythologies, lit. 'Mythologies') is a 1957 book by Roland Barthes.It contains a collection of fifty-three short essays written between 1954 to 1956, most of which were first published in the French literary review Les Lettres nouvelles.
The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies is a collection of essays by the French literary theorist Roland Barthes. [1] It is a companion volume to his earlier book, Mythologies, and follows the same format of a series of short essays which explore a range of cultural phenomena, from the Tour de France to laundry detergents.
Roland Gérard Barthes (/ b ɑːr t /; [2] French: [ʁɔlɑ̃ baʁt]; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) [3] was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.
Nouvelles Mythologies is a collection of 57 texts written by authors, journalists and editorialists under the direction of Jérôme Garcin and published in 2007 at Éditions du Seuil to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the essay Mythologies by Roland Barthes.
Les Lettres nouvelles first published Samuel Beckett's "Imagination Dead Imagine" and his French translation of Krapp's Last Tape, [1] the French translation of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, [2] and (between 1954 and 1956) Roland Barthes's recurring column "Mythology of the Month" (later collected as Barthes's Mythologies). [3]
Barthes does not provide an overall structure for how the codes are integrated because he wants to preserve the plurality (multivalence) of the text. Since reading is plural (IX), a different reading (reader) might invoke the codes differently and combine them differently ending up with a different understanding.
Barthes also critiqued Graham for simplifying theological statements to tautologies, such as "God is God", and claimed that if God truly spoke through Graham, then God would be foolish. [2] Barthes believed Graham's campaigns in France were partially a result of the McCarthy era in the US and were encouraged by President Eisenhower.
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