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Çağdaş Söylenler by Roland Barthes

katokaitlyn's review against another edition

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challenging informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

There are amazing insights here that I think will be extremely useful for my thesis! Definitely a text to return to for its breakdown of semiotics.

laurenboys's review against another edition

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informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

petunitea's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.75

botchedsonnet's review against another edition

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challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

sculpthead's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Mythologies basically defines ideologies. 

gavroche's review against another edition

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2.0

note à moi même : j'ai pas compris grand chose

knivesgf's review against another edition

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challenging funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

surprisingly funny??

mmillerb's review against another edition

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4.0

suppose i should say something... barthes is a very funny guy. i truly enjoyed many of his observations (plastics carry the names of greek shepherds). helped to demystify some of the mysticism swirling about semiotics (not, however, destroying it via its liberation from the sign-signifier-signified relation). 4 because some of the analysis felt to get a little repetitive, and it was exceedingly french, and sometimes i didn’t feel like looking up the greek

rodrigoparis's review against another edition

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3.0

Barthes lives in a myth, portraying it into a world that looses meaning. This book is a desperate cry for the creation of secular meaning, he fails at this, not only through his "myths" but also though a very constrictive conception of semiotics.
Language may be dynamic and alive in myth but once Barthes grabs it, it dies of sorrow.

mirivii's review against another edition

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Barthes would have made it big on twitter.