Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
An Analysis of Roland Barthes's Mythologies

An Analysis of Roland Barthes's Mythologies

Gomez, John

Paperback

Series: Macat Library

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1912127962
ISBN13: 9781912127962
Publisher: Macat Library
Published: Jul 15 2017
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

Mythologies is a masterpiece of analysis and interpretation. At its heart, Barthes's collection of essays about the mythologies of modern life treats everyday objects and ideas - from professional wrestling, to the Tour de France, to Greta Garbo's face - as though they are silently putting forward arguments. Those arguments are for modernity itself, the way the world is, from its class structures, to its ideologies, to its customs. In Barthes's view, the mythologies of the modern world all tend towards one aim: making us think that the way things are, the status quo, is how they should naturally be. For Barthes, this should not be taken for granted; instead, he suggests, it is a kind of mystification, preventing us from seeing things differently or believing they might be otherwise. His analyses do what all good analytical thinking does: he unpicks the features of the arguments silently presented by his subjects, reveals their (and our) implicit assumptions, and shows how they point us towards certain ideas and conclusions. Indeed, understanding Barthes' methods of analysis means you might never see the world in the same way again.

Also from

Gomez, John

View All

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All