Barthes’s Mythologies embodies both modernist contempt and postmodern valorization at once.

Evidence

Modernist loathing of mass culture cohabits uneasily with postmodernist fascination with popular culture in Mythologies. The text enacts in itself the historical moment, in the sixties, of the coexistence, of a dominant (soon to be residual) modern with an emergent postmodern paradigm. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 213

Categorization

• SEED: An essay reading Mythologies as a single text that performs rather than resolves the modern/postmodern transition.
• XREF: connects to: Sixties texts are now dated precisely by straddling modern and postmodern paradigms — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 89; Modernist allusion and postmodern pastiche were indistinguishable in the sixties — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 663