Translator's Note by Richard Howard

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first 53 essays written from 1954-1956 for monthly magazines


        Howard, R. (2012). Translator's Note by Richard Howard. In Barthes, R. Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation. Hill & Wang, pp. 7-8

"sign breaking" or the defiling of the sacred status of signs (a term defined by Roland Barthes)

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no denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis, no semiology which cannot ultimately be acknowledged as a semioclasm

quoting Barthes from somewhere in Myth Today

—p.vii by Roland Barthes

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6 years, 9 months ago

no denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis, no semiology which cannot ultimately be acknowledged as a semioclasm

quoting Barthes from somewhere in Myth Today

—p.vii by Roland Barthes

uncertain

6 years, 9 months ago

(noun) a soft jelly or porridge made with flour or meal / (noun) any of several sweet desserts / (noun) mummery mumbo jumbo

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I detected an echo of good British common sense in the face of a bit too much Gallic flummery

—p.viii by Richard Howard

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6 years, 9 months ago

I detected an echo of good British common sense in the face of a bit too much Gallic flummery

—p.viii by Richard Howard

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6 years, 9 months ago

Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
by Annette Lavers, Richard Howard, Roland Barthes

Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
by Annette Lavers, Richard Howard, Roland Barthes

Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
by Annette Lavers, Richard Howard, Roland Barthes