The Eiffel Tower, and Other MythologiesUniversity of California Press, 1997 - 151 pages 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. |
Table des matières
The Eiffel Tower | 3 |
Conjugations | 23 |
Power and Cool | 43 |
Billy Graham at the Vel dHiv | 63 |
The Batory Cruise | 95 |
Poujade and the Intellectuals | 127 |
Cottage Industry | 145 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
abstract according actor alibi ambiguous appears Bichon Billy Graham Bobet bourgeois Brando Buffet causality childhood constitutes contrary crime declared dialectic doubtless dream Dupriez Eiffel Tower entire epic essence everything Figaro French function Gaul geois Gérard Gérard Souzay gesture give glamorous Harcourt Hence human insofar intellectual kind labor language Le Figaro literal longer Louison Bobet Madame la Générale magical Marlon Brando marriage Michelet Minou Drouet Miss Europe Mme la Générale Monsieur Macaigne Monsieur Poujade monument morality moreover movement music hall myth mythic mythology nature notion object paradoxical Paris perceived petit-bourgeois petite bourgeoisie photograph Phraseology Ping-Pong poetic poetry political polytechnicians Poujade's Poujadist precisely pure racer Racine Raf Vallone rational reality reduced ROLAND BARTHES role sacrifice Salon sense signifies social space spectacle stage sublimated substance symbol tautology theater theme tion Tour de France tourist truth useless veritable vocabulary word