Roland Barthes Flashcards
Most scholars think the same basic patterns they study in religious traditions are all over _.
culture
Football, food, sexuality, holidays
Culture
Barthes assumes with Lincoln that interesting myths occur _
outside of religion
1950s literary theorist, critic. Died in the 1980s
Roland Barthes
Barthes constructs a new understanding of the word mythology
Reality construction
Uses the reality construction lens to study the 1950s _.
French culture
Discovers that myth is all _.
over the place
His new theory on where myth is created by taking a subject (person, institution) and adding _ to it
new qualities
Barthes says to find what is crucial about myth-making, you need to see how this happens on an _.
every day level (news, media, popular culture)
The new qualities that you attach to something have a lot to do with a person’s _.
political preference
Pizza gate became a myth that other chains of pizza places were having child sexual slavery and there was _.
no empirical evidence
Fake news, corporate news
Pizza gate
The pizza parlor was taken as a subject and then added _ to it.
new qualities
Those new qualities from pizza gate had a lot to do with certain _.
political preferences
Barthes thinks that powerful mythology is not only found in religions but in _.
everywhere else
