Mythologies - Softcover

Barthes, Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 058608164X ISBN 13: 9780586081648

Verlag: Fontana Press, 1973

Inhaltsangabe

As the launcher of the whole science of "semiotics" - the study of the meanings latent in the signs and objects we come across daily in the modern media-saturated world - this book attempts to demystify the roles and values inherent in such diverse commonplace items as wrestling, Citroen DS, steak and chips, Greta Garbo's face and household detergents via a series of essays. The essays themselves became cultural icons, and the book became a cult object. It is now studied on many courses in higher education as an emblematic text of post-war French culture, and as the precursor of the late-20th-century preoccupation with the language of signs and gestures in mass culture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fontana Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1973
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 058608164X
• ISBN 13: 9780586081648
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar