Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation (2nd Edition)

基本信息

Format Paperback | 288 pages

Dimensions 139.95 x 210.06 x 20.57mm | 258.55g

Publication date 12 Mar 2013

Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

Language English

Edition Statement 2nd ed.

ISBN10 0809071940

ISBN13 9780809071944

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《罗兰·巴特：神话修辞术》（第二版）为完整版，采用新的译本，译者是Richard Howard和Annette Lavers。

1952年巴特进入国家科学研究中心从事词汇学和社会学研究，在其后的七年间在《新文艺》杂志上发表了许多揭露大众文化迷思的文章，后来集结成《神话修辞术》(Mythologies, 1957)。从此，巴特被公认是关于我们怎样通过语言、服饰、手势相互交流的最有独创性的评论家之一。60年代初期，巴特在社会科学高等学院研究符号学和结构主义，他对传统学院文学理论观点以及大众文学形态作了论述，其独特的观点被称为新批评，引起其他思想家的不满，认为他漠视和不尊重文化中的文学根源。巴特则发表《批评与真实》（Critique et verite, 1966）与其对抗，控诉那种陈旧的、布尔乔亚式的不重视语言细节、刻意忽视其他理论概念（如马克思主义）挑战的批评方式；他热情地呼吁读者要摆脱既成观念，按照现代思想看待文学作品，而文学作品总是先由一种语言与其自身的冲突组成的。

The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

A stunning new edition of the great French classic

“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way readers and philosophers view the world around them.

Our age is a triumph of codification. We own devices that bring the world to the command of our fingertips. We have access to boundless information and prodigious quantities of stuff. We decide to like or not, to believe or not, to buy or not. We pick and choose. We think we are free. Yet all around us, in pop culture, politics, mainstream media, and advertising, there are codes and symbols that govern our choices. They are the fabrications of consumer society. They express myths of success, well-being, or happiness. As Barthes sees it, these myths must be carefully deciphered, and debunked.

What Barthes discerned in mass media, the fashion of plastic, and the politics of postcolonial France applies with equal force to today’s social networks, the iPhone, and the images of 9/11. This new edition of Mythologies, complete and beautifully rendered by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, critic, and translator Richard Howard, is a consecration of Barthes’s classic—a lesson in clairvoyance that is more relevant now than ever.

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"Teacher, man of letters, moralist, philospher of culture, connoisseur of strong ideas, protean autobiographer . . . of all the intellectual notables who have emerged since World War II in France, Roland Barthes is the one whose work I am most certain will endure" —Susan Sontag

"One of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available serveral steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts —and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human" —Peter Brooks

"With so much new material now included, this volume is not an unabridged reissue so much as a celebration anew." —Publishers Weekly

"Barthes was one of the major French critics of the 20th century, and this fuller translation will be of interest to English-speaking students of French and comparative literature as well as to cultural anthropologists." —Library Journal

"As this new translation and expansion of a seminal work by the French semiotician and philosopher demonstrates, Barthes remains ahead of his time, and our time, more than 30 years after his death.... It's remarkable that essays written more than a half-century ago, on another continent, should seem not merely pertinent but prescient in regard to the course of contemporary American culture." —Kirkus Reviews

作者简介

罗兰·巴特（Roland Barthes，1915-1980）被认为是继萨特之后法国知识界的领袖人物，蒙田之后最富才华的散文家。他在符号、精神分析批评、释义学、解构主义诸领域都有卓越建树，对西方文化和文化研究影响深远。

Roland Barthes was born in 1915. A French literary theorist, philosopher, and critic, he influenced the development of various schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, and post-structuralism. He died in 1980.