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| Myth: A myth is a traditional story that embodies a belief about the world or the nature of human existence. Myths are often concerned with the origins of the universe, the creation of humanity, and the relationship between humans and the gods._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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R. Barthes on Myth - Dictionary of Arguments
Röttger-Denker I 13 Myths of everyday life: the myth of everyday life is not only fighting against the petty bourgeois conscience but against the symbolic and semantic system of our civilization as a whole. >Bourgeoisie, >Civilization, >Symbols, >Signs, >Semantics. Röttger-Denker I 15 Myth/Barthes: Double-sidedness: he seizes on a semiological system, produces something that is meant and something that means, sign and meaning. His "first system" has meaning, sense, history. The meaning becomes the form in the myth, thus all its history gets evaporated. The myth deforms, it transforms history into nature. >Semiology. Röttger-Denker I 17 Myth: precisely a resistive language like poetry falls easily into the hands of the myth. It is transformed into an empty meaning which serves to mean poetry. "Stolen Language". >Text, >Literature, >Writing, >Meaning change. Myth: the myth notes and explains nothing. Thus, it becomes evident that there is ultimately no "left" myth. The myth "stands right". Barthes: what we must do is to seek an exercise of the real and the human." Röttger-Denker I 18 E.g. Myth: 1. "The Great Family of Humans" (photo exhibition) refers to an underlying, identical "nature", which can ultimately only be explained by a strong will, the one of God. >Metaphor, >Analogy, >Comparison/Barthes, >Nature, >Explanation, >God. Röttger-Denker I 20 E.g. Myth 2 »Rhetorique de l'image«. (Advertisement). Three messages: 1. Linguistic message 2. Encoded iconic (symbolic) message 3. Non-encoded iconic (literal) message. Röttger-Denker I 25 E.g. Myth 3 "The Language of Fashion". >Code, >Encoding, >Icons._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Barthes I R. Barthes Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation New York 2013 Röttger I Gabriele Röttger-Denker Roland Barthes zur Einführung Hamburg 1997 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16