Mythologies
Book by Roland BarthesWikipedia
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Sep 6, 2026
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But something destructive happened to the world of letters when English departments turned their theory loose on any cultural object they could.
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The most influential book for this kind of culture studies was Roland Barthes' Mythologies, which appeared in 1957 in French, and applied structuralist linguistics to novels, films, professional wrestling, ads for soap.
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precisely in the bourgeois debunking Marxist way, we might expect Terry Eagleton to approve of, I might add.
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Don DeLillo was already satirizing a post-literary academe in his 1985 novel White Noise.
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So far it's very good.
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Um, I'm also reading Roland Barthes' Mythologies.
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I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
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My king, my French king.
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What is the Roland Barthes book I love? A Lover's Discourse.
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That's like my favorite Roland Barthes book, which I always really recommend because I think it's so incredible.
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But yeah, so I'm reading Mythologies.
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And then the third book is not a semiotics book.