"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of ana

A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sel

This book surveys the important available books on mythologies of all parts of the globe and the cultural contexts from which the mythological traditions emerge

Looks at ancient myths and legends, how they are interpreted today, and what they mean now.