Heinrich Heine’s ‘Die Lorelei’: A Roland Barthes’ Semiotic Perspective (opens in new tab)

This article explores Die Lorelei by Heinrich Heine from the perspective of Roland Barthes’ semiotic theory and focuses on the poem as a system of signs, analysed through Barthes’ stages of signification, including denotative meaning, mythological signification, and the naturalization of ideology. The aims of the article are to describe (1) the identification of signs at the denotative level, (2) mythological analysis, and (3) how the process of naturalization operates in Heinrich Heine’s poe...