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Country
  
France

Publication date
  
1979

ISBN
  
978-0-520-20982-4

Author
  
Roland Barthes

Page count
  
152

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Language
  
French

Pages
  
152

Originally published
  
1979

Original title
  
La Tour Eiffel

Translator
  
Richard Howard

Subject
  
Semiotics, structuralism, cultural studies

Publisher
  
University of California Press

Similar
  
A Barthes reader, Critical Essays, On Racine, New critical essays, The responsibility of forms

The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies is a collection of essays by the French literary theorist Roland Barthes. It is a companion volume to his earlier book, Mythologies, and follows the same format of a series of short essays which explore a range of cultural phenomena, from the Tour de France to laundry detergents.

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