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January 9, 2012August 3, 2019andrewwelsby

Roland Barthes: Myth Today

Reflecting on Roland Barthes and the section ‘Myth Today’ within the book Mythologies (Barthes: 1957). Barthes believes semiotics to work on 2 levels and that sign systems can produce a second tier, or ‘metalanguage’, of meaning. I also found that semiotics is closely tied to structuralism. In addition, I learned that Barthes sees myths as […]

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