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The Eiffel Tower, and other mythologies

Roland Barthes ; translated by Richard Howard
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

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Format:
book Book
Author:
Barthes, Roland
Subject:
Barthes, Roland > Translations into English
Popular culture > France
Tour Eiffel (Paris, France)
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
English
Published:
Berkeley
ISBN:
0520209826, 9780520209824
Course:
ENG409
Interdisciplinary Approach to English Studies
Note:
Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1979
Translated from La Tour Eiffel
Collection of essays

 

 


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