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The Eiffel Tower, and other mythologies

Barthes, Roland.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997

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

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Barthes, Roland.
Subject: Barthes, Roland
Popular culture
Tour Eiffel (Paris, France)
Publication Year:1979
Language:English
Published:Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997
ISBN:9780520209824
0520209826
0520209826 (alk. paper)
Notes:Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1979
Translated from La Tour Eiffel
Collection of essays
Eiffel Tower -- Harcourt actor -- Conjugations -- Martians -- Paris not flooded -- Bichon and the Blacks -- A sympathetic worker -- Power and "cool" -- Depth advertised -- A few words from Monsieur Poujade -- Adamov and language -- Racine is Racine -- Billy Graham at the Vel' d'Hiv' -- Dupriez trial -- Shock-photos -- Two myths of the new theater -- The Tour de France as epic -- Agony columns -- The "Batory" cruise -- The man in the street on strike -- African grammar -- Literature according to Minou Drouet -- Bourgeois art of song -- At the music hall -- Poujade and the intellectuals -- The two salons -- Dining car -- College industry -- Buffet finishes off New York
Course: ENG409

Availability at HKSYU Library


Location Call number Status
English Book (5/F) 700.1030944 BAR 1997 Available