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In 1976 Roland Barthes was appointed chair of literary semiology and elected to the Collège de France--the highest position in the French academic system. His lifelong pursuit of formally interpreting the sign systems that make up culture from lit...

Barthes: Mythologies. By Andrew Leak. (Critical Guides to French Texts, no. 107.) London: Grant and Cutler, 1994. Pp. 82. [pound]4.95. Mythologies (1957) is the first book of modern theory to make it into Grant and Cutler's 'Critical Guides to French Texts' series...

In 1981 Yves BONNEFOY, professor of comparative poetics at the College des France, published his two-volume Dictionnaire des mythologies et des religions des societes traditionnelles et du monde antique, with entries primarily by Francophone scholars associated with the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes...

Once among the most frightening and effective epithets in American political culture, “socialized medicine” seems to have lost its juju. These days, that phrase sounds awfully dated, like a song on a gramophone or a mother-in-law joke or a John Birch Society rant against fluoridated...

Thousands of Hindu hard-liners protested Sunday against plans to dredge a new shipping channel off southern India, arguing the project would damage a marine formation that Hindus believe was created by the god Rama.The $550 million project, aimed at cutting up to 30 hours from...