The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
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| Author | Roland Barthes |
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| Original title | La Tour Eiffel |
| Translator | Richard Howard |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Semiotics, structuralism, cultural studies |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
Publication date | 1979 |
| Publication place | France |
| Pages | 152 |
| ISBN | 978-0-520-20982-4 |
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.
References
- ^ Mavor, Carol. Reading boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott. United Kingdom, Duke University Press, 2007. 471.