0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory

Buy Now

Mythologies (Paperback) Loot Price: R228
Discovery Miles 2 280
Mythologies (Paperback): John E Gomez

Mythologies (Paperback)

John E Gomez

Series: The Macat Library

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R228 Discovery Miles 2 280

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 9 - 17 working days

Mythologies is a masterpiece of analysis and interpretation. At its heart, Barthes’s collection of essays about the “mythologies” of modern life treats everyday objects and ideas – from professional wrestling, to the Tour de France, to Greta Garbo’s face – as though they are silently putting forward arguments. Those arguments are for modernity itself, the way the world is, from its class structures, to its ideologies, to its customs. In Barthes’s view, the mythologies of the modern world all tend towards one aim: making us think that the way things are, the status quo, is how they should naturally be. For Barthes, this should not be taken for granted; instead, he suggests, it is a kind of mystification, preventing us from seeing things differently or believing they might be otherwise. His analyses do what all good analytical thinking does: he unpicks the features of the arguments silently presented by his subjects, reveals their (and our) implicit assumptions, and shows how they point us towards certain ideas and conclusions. Indeed, understanding Barthes’ methods of analysis means you might never see the world in the same way again.

Six skills combine to make up our ability to think critically. Mythologies is an especially fine example of a work that uses the skills of analysis and creative thinking.

General

Imprint: Macat International Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The Macat Library
Release date: July 2017
First published: 2017
Authors: John E Gomez
Dimensions: 197 x 133 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 978-1-912127-96-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Promotions
LSN: 1-912127-96-2
Barcode: 9781912127962

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Recognition - An Anthology Of South…
Paperback R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650
Critical Reading And Writing - An…
Andrew Goatly, Preet Hiradhar Paperback  (1)
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010
And Wrote My Story Anyway - Black South…
Barbara Boswell Paperback R330 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050
Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils
Reuven Tsur Hardcover R3,488 Discovery Miles 34 880
Spectacular Men - Race, Gender, and…
Sarah E. Chinn Hardcover R2,783 Discovery Miles 27 830
Lateness and Modern European Literature
Ben Hutchinson Hardcover R3,264 Discovery Miles 32 640
More than Meets the Eye - What Blindness…
Georgina Kleege Hardcover R3,473 Discovery Miles 34 730
Old Norse Mythology
John Lindow Hardcover R2,581 Discovery Miles 25 810
New Directions in Law and Literature
Elizabeth S. Anker, Bernadette Meyler Hardcover R3,501 Discovery Miles 35 010
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson…
Elisabeth Camp Hardcover R2,578 Discovery Miles 25 780
Dictionary Of Fairies (Katharine Briggs…
Katharine Briggs Hardcover R4,667 Discovery Miles 46 670
Changing Theory - Concepts From The…
Dilip Menon Paperback R420 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880

See more

Partners