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Barthes: Mythologies.(Review) (book review)

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Journal of European Studies, June 1st, 2000

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 and it is an excellent choice, being perhaps the most accessible and certainly most widely read of Roland Barthes's works. Leak performs well the task of presenting Barthes's ideas to the layman clearly and succinctly, offering an informed, intelligent and probing account of the 'double articulation' (p. 71) -- semiological and ideo...

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