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The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

· 1979-01-01· book· 415 citationsclosed

French Literature and Critical Theory French Literature and Criticism Semiotics and Representation Studies

Abstract

In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy Graham, the flooding of the Seine - and other shared events and aspects of everyday experience.

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Roland Barthes (1979). The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies.

@book{roland1979the,
  title  = {The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies},
  author = {Barthes, Roland},
  year   = {1979}
}

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