Mythology. 5th edition. Bart R.

A series of essays of “mythology” is a brilliant analysis of the mass culture as a sign system. The author sevenhiotically explains the mechanism of the emergence of political myths as the transformation of history into ideology, provided that the signing of this process is signed. In the generalizing part of the work-the article “Myth Today” is proposed to the explanation and the method of confrontation with modern mythologization-the creation of the latest artificial myth, the design of the conditional, third level of mythology, if the first to understand the archaic-poisoning, by the second-“new” (as a scientific class (as a scientific class , for example, Soviet).

In the studies of R. Bart, the leading definition of a myth is a word. Everything that is covered with discourse can become a myth, since "our world is infinitely suggestive." The myth, according to Bart, is a marked qualitative characteristic of a “anonymous” modern bourgeois society, while mythologization is considered as a sign of all society.

The book is of interest to linguists, philologists, as well as researchers of society and culture.