The Myth of the Soul Plato’s Phaedrus centers around the concept of the soul and its division. Plato uses the soul to describe physiological thinking and justification of all aspects of philosophy as the most noble of all ventures because of its relationship to the soul. The first speeches are on love and how best to love. The central arguments are whether or not it is best in a Paederastic to be in a relationship with someone who does or does not love you. Initially‚ Socrates seemed fairly
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The Work of Representation Stuart Hall Summarize by Jesse Tseng 1 Representation‚ meaning and language At first we have to know that： Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. It does involve the use of language‚ of signs and images which stand for or represent things. And surly it is not a simple or straightforward process. How this article exploring the concept of representation connect meaning and language to
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Scene Analysis Frankenstein David Gonzalez Vargas October 7th‚ 2014 Dr. Jeremy Citrome English 2851 Introduction to Film Theory and Film Form Word count: 1425 Scene Analysis Frankenstein James Whale’s 1931 iconic film‚ Frankenstein‚ is an open door to the world semiotics. In the film‚ each frame has a series of audio-visual elements that signify certain messages intentionally placed by Whale in order to be decoded along with the narrative of the film. A scene that is of paramount relevance
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Critic Roland Barthes has said‚ “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Many works of literature expose hypothetical questions that‚ in turn‚ raise awareness for a civil issue. The author’s treatment of these questions can give a deeper understanding of the work as a whole. Kurt Vonnegut’s classic short story‚ “Harrison Bergeron”‚ contains the perfect example of such questions. “Harrison Bergeron” takes place in a futuristic society that emphasizes the right of equality. Each member of society
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The advertisement I’ve chosen to be my case of study in analyzing an advertisement through Barthes’ analytical model is an ad from Folgers Coffees. The ad is actually a print of a cup of Folgers coffee placed on top of manhole covers in New York City. Holes on the print allow the steam to come out‚ and the wordings around the cup read ‘Hey City That Never Sleeps. Wake Up. Folgers.’ As I recently learned‚ Folgers are well-known to be innovative with its ads: always trying to do something creative
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s/z Roland Barthes TRANSLATED BY R.idYtrl Miller PREFACE BY Ridunl HowanJ •A Blackwell Translation © 1974 by Farrar‚ Straus and Giroux‚ Inc. Originally published in French as S/Z Copyright © 1973 by Editions du Seuil‚ Paris 350 Main Street‚ Malden‚ MA 02148-5018‚ USA 108 Cowley Road‚ Oxford OX4 UF‚ UK 550 Swanston Street‚ Carlton South‚ Melbourne‚ Victoria 3053‚ Australia Kurfllrstendamm 57‚ 10707 Berlin‚ Germany All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
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Bibliography: Baktin‚ Michael‚ The Dialogical Imagination‚ ed. Michael Holquist (Austun: University of Texas Press 1981) Barthes‚ Roland‚ On Racine / by Roland Barthes ; translated from the French by Richard Howard (Berkeley : University of California Press 1992) Benichou‚ Paul‚ Man and Ethics: Studies in French Classicism / translation by Elizabeth Hughes (New York: Anchor Books 1971) Cairncross
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Cited: Albers‚ Pillipp and Michael Nowak. "Lomography - Snapshot Photography in the Age of Digital-Simulation." History Of Photography 23.1(1999)‚ 101-4. Barthes‚ Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. USA: Hill and Yang‚ 1980. Bourdieu‚ Pierre‚ Luc Boltanski‚ Robert Castel‚ Jean-Claude Chamboredon‚ and Dominique Schnapper. Photography: a Middle-Brow Art. Trans. Shaun Whiteside. Cambridge: Polity
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relate to each other” --Parole: the individual utterance‚ an instantiation of the system --Is this distinction useful? What does it allow? --Example: hashtag‚ LOLcats‚ input -Are there any problems associated with this approach? --Barthes: Myth is a “second-order semiological system” --Language is a system of differences with no positive terms ->There is no word that is concrete in itself ->Distinguishable only through other terms’ definition Everything you need to know
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Social cognitive Theory and Feminist Theories The goal in this individual assignment is to apply the social cognitive theory and feminist theories to contemporary media content and to compare and contrast different theoretical perspectives. Attached to this paper there will be a print advertisement specifically chosen to analyze how and whom these theories reflect on in new media today. After analyzing the two perspectives‚ the theories will be compared and contrasted‚ showing the similarities
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