ABSTRACT
The next two chapters deal with Barthes’s major work in the fields of semiology and structuralism respectively. While the ideas promoted by these theoretical movements influenced Barthes’s work until his death in 1980, it is possible to locate a period in which they dominated his writing. This period takes us from the late 1950s, in which Barthes composed his Mythologies , to the latter part of the 1960s. Although the two terms, semiology and structuralism, are intimately related, it is possible to distinguish between work primarily concerned with semiology (dealt with in this chapter) and work of a more fundamentally structuralist nature (dealt with in the next chapter).
