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MYTHOLOGIESBooks by Roland BarthesA Barthes ReaderCamera LucidaCritical EssaysThe Eiffel Tower and Other MythologiesElements of SemiologyThe Empire of SignsThe Fashion SystemThe Grain of the VoiceImage-Music-TextA Lover's DiscourseMicheletMythologiesNew Critical EssaysOn RacineThe Pleasure of the TextThe Responsibility of FormsRoland BarthesThe Rustle of LanguageSade / Fourier / LoyolaThe Semiotic ChallengeS/ZWriting Degree ZeroMYTHOLOGIESRoland BarthesSelected and translated from the French byANNETTE LAVERSTHE NOONDAY PRESS - NEW YORKFARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX2
ContentsTranslated from the French Mythologies (c) 1957 by Editions duSeuil, ParisTranslation (c) 1972 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.All rights reservedLibrary of Congress catalog card number: 75-185427Of the essays reproduced in this book, "The World of Wrestling"first appeared in Esprit, "The Writer on Holiday" in France-Observateur, and the remainder in Les Lettres Nouvelles.Manufactured in the United States of AmericaTwenty-fifth printing, 19913TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 7PREFACE TO THE 1970 EDITION 9PREFACE TO THE 1957 EDITION 11MYTHOLOGIESThe World of Wrestling 15The Romans in Films 26The Writer on Holiday 29The 'Blue Blood' Cruise 32Blind and Dumb Criticism 34Soap-powders and Detergents 36The Poor and the Proletariat 39Operation Margarine 41Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature 43The Iconography of the Abbé Pierre 47Novels and Children 50Toys 53The Face of Garbo 56Wine and Milk 58Steak and Chips 62The Nautilus and the Drunken Boat 65The Brain of Einstein 68The Jet-man 71The Blue Guide 74Ornamental Cookery 78Neither-Nor Criticism 81Striptease 84The New Citroën 88Photography and Electoral Appeal 91The Lost Continent 94Plastic 97The Great Family of Man 100The Lady of the Camellias 103MYTH TODAY 109Myth is a type of speech 109Myth as a semiological system 111The form and the concept 117The signification 1214
Page 4 and 5: Reading and deciphering myth 127Myt
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Page 8 and 9: The World of WrestlingThe grandiloq
Page 10 and 11: exhaustion of the content by the fo
Page 12 and 13: or function because in fact half th
Page 14 and 15: integration of Roman capillary habi
Page 16 and 17: The good-natured image of 'the writ
Page 18 and 19: Blind and Dumb CriticismCritics (of
Page 20 and 21: having disguised the abrasive funct
Page 22 and 23: It is a kind of homeopathy: one cur
Page 24 and 25: And this 'universal' language comes
Page 26 and 27: not the alibi which a sizeable part
Page 28 and 29: ToysFrench toys: one could not find
Page 30 and 31: of beauty than the essence of her c
Page 32 and 33: American films, in which the hero,
Page 34 and 35: The Nautilus and the Drunken BoatTh
Page 36 and 37: him, the cessation of a localized f
Page 38 and 39: All this would be commonplace if we
Page 40 and 41: support given by the Guide to Franc
Page 42 and 43: Neither-Nor CriticismWe were able t
Page 44 and 45: incongruous and artificial clothing
Page 46 and 47: course is meant to prepare one for
Page 48 and 49: the 'problem'. A three-quarter face
Page 50 and 51: PlasticDespite having names of Gree
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which accompany each chapter of the
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Thus we begin to see better the myt
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difference. Pictures become a kind
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which is a signification. Of course
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But the essential point in all this
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metaphor is perhaps still too spati
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salute and that of the French soldi
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instrument. Conversely, if I deciph
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ut the meaning of things themselves
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The bourgeoisie as a joint-stock co
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particular, historical: man as repr
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enthralled by the story of the lion
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empty form, open to the innocence o
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only weigh like against like. There
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Necessity and limits of mythologyI
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weigh the signification with the fu
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