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The Eiffel Tower, and other mythologies

Author:Roland Barthes

Summary: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

Print Book, English, 1997

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Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997

Genre:French essays Translations into English

Physical Description:151 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN:

9780520209824, 0520209826

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:35714409

Subjects:

18.25 French literature

Barthes, Roland

Barthes, Roland Translations into English

French essays 20th century

French essays Translations into English

Mythologies (Barthes)

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Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1979

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