...entitled Mythologies, Roland Barthes criticizes such assumptions. Barthes explains his motivation: The starting point of these reflections was usually...circumstances, I resented seeing Nature and History confused at even- turn, and I wanted to track down, in the decorative display of what-goes-without-saying, the...

...Roland Barthes notes his dissatisfaction against this totalizing in Mythologies when he writes about his "feeling of impatience at the sight of the 'naturalness'...one we live in, is undoubtedly determined by history . . . [and] the ideological abuse which, in my view is hidden there."12 As Linda Hutcheon further notes,...

...everyday behaviours as highly politicized occurrences. The work is in direct response to Barthes's "feeling of impatience at the sight of the 'naturalness'...we live in, is undoubtedly determined by history" (1957, n). In other words, Barthes sets out to denaturalize life processes that have gone relatively...

...sense of "naturalness" to the events that have been recorded and written about. In the process, they "dress up a reality which, even though it is the one...we live in, is undoubtedly determined by history" (Barthes, l957/l972, p. lll. By displaying events and happenings as natural occurrences, texts confuse...

...leggen, maar over alle (populaire) cultuuruitingen iets kan zeggen. Barthes begint zijn boek als volgt: The starting point of these reflections was usually...'naturalness' with which newspapers, art and common senseconstantlydress upa reality which, even though it is the one we live in, is undoubtly determinied...

...that from the start he was impatient at the '"naturalness" with which newspapers, art and common sense dress up a reality which, even though it is the one...we live in, is undoubtedly determined by history' (Barthes 1993a: 11). It was only later that he explored the idea of myth as being a distinct language;...

...concepts to analyse a variety of popular cultural texts and activities. His objective is to deconstruct the '"naturalness" with which newspapers, art and...is the one we live in, is undoubtedly determined by history.'51 Describing this as a bourgeois 'ideological abuse,' he tries to account for the widespread...

...was usually a feeling of impatience in the face of f devant] the 'naturalness' with which the press, art and common sense constantly dress up a reality which, even though it is the one we live in, is none the less historical through and through. In short, in the account given of our contemporary circumstances,...

...current events. I was at the time trying to reflect regularly on some myths of French daily life. ... The starting point of these reflections was usually a feeling of impatience at the sight of "naturalness" with which newspapers, art and common sense constantly dress up a reality which even...

...remains "a matter of absolute indifference".29 Barthes has an entirely valid "feeling of impatience at the 'naturalness' with which newspapers, art, and common sense constantly dress up reality".30 The use of a semiotic code relating to dress-style or furniture-styles, for example, may...