Foucault ’s Las Meninas and art-historical methods. Michel Foucault ’s study of Velazquez ’s Las Meninas (1) was first published in the volume Les Mots et les choses in 1966 which was followed‚ in 1970‚ by the English translation titled The Order of Things. In "Las Meninas"‚ which is the title of the opening chapter of The Order of Things‚ Foucault focused on the artwork itself as though it were before him‚ describing in extraordinary detail what he saw. His seemingly unobtrusive actions--looking
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Langue and Parole John Phillips The distinction between the French words‚ langue (language or tongue) and parole (speech)‚ enters the vocabulary of theoretical linguistics with Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics‚ which was published posthumously in 1915 after having been collocated from student notes. La langue denotes the abstract systematic principles of a language‚ without which no meaningful utterance (parole) would be possible. The Course manifests a shift from the search
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A logical place to start may be to ask ‘what is news?’ Professor Jonathan Bignell suggests that ‘news is not just facts‚ but representations produced in language and other signs like photographs.’ The newspaper is just one medium of news communication; other media include television‚ radio‚ magazines‚ and the Internet. We will concentrate on a particular news item as covered in three different British daily newspapers‚ namely The Sun‚ The Telegraph‚ and The Times. The story which is being covered
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Languages of Waste: Matter and Form in our Garb-age Abstract: In the context of material ecocriticism which turns to explore the entanglements and networks of human and nonhuman elements‚ or as stated by Oppermann that ecological postmodernism contest the distinction between biological and chemical by endowing the matter whether organic or inorganic internal and external meanings‚ this paper raises a number of issues concerning the waste. The paper embarks from Barad and Bennett’s material theory
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J. J. Abrams compares/contrast Roland Barthes’ two codes for creating suspense hermeneutic and proairetic by explaining how each film has multiple “mystery boxes”. The “mystery box” is a combination of the hermeneutic and proairetic codes. He mentions that there is always question of who‚ what‚ how‚ and what happens next‚ which create suspense to keep the audience drawn into the story. His example was from Star Wars‚ the droid‚ R2-D2‚ who meets mysterious women‚ the audience does not know‚ that is
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Lake mungo can be understood to a relative extent using todorovs theory‚ this is because we can see that a clear disruption takes place early on in the movie with the death of Alice‚ this creates a new sense of normality and can easily been considered a disruption of the equilibrium. However this is not the only risruption within the film‚ another element of the movie that could be considered a disruption is when photos start appearing with figures that look like Alice in them‚ this is another disruption
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Mystery Play‚ written by Jean-Claude van Itallie was first produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City on January 3‚ 1973. Jacques Levy was the director. Peaslee wrote the song “We Want a King” for the play. The song is included with the play book. Words were written by van Itallie and Peaslee wrote the melody and basic harmonization. The music came from the previous collaboration‚ The King of the United States‚ that Peaslee wrote for van Itallie. Troilus and Cressida opened November 10
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The Intersection Identity of the Black Woman While the term ‘intersectionality’ was first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989‚ the idea had been employed in Black feminist texts decades before. This essay examines how African-American women experience intersections of gender and race. First‚ I briefly look at how the concept of intersectionality was conceived and its importance as a tool of analysis. Second‚ I examine the oppression Black women are subject to within both gender and race. Then‚
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Modifying the Story Summer Solstice through the Screenplay Entitled “Tatarin” A Partial Thesis Presented To Mrs. Evelyn S. Agato In Partial Fulfillment of the Subject RD 100 - Research Design Leader Divine Angeline Leaño Members Erinn Chua Jan Erik Miras Jamie Robertson San Juan Clarissa Tan Cherryl Tolentino October 2011 Department of Media Studies College of Arts and Sciences Trinity University of Asia Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to come up with a clear
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Caribbean playwrights Final Essay exam Essay During this semester we have been studying Caribbean playwrights. In one way or another‚ these playwrights relate. Issues like poverty‚ economic problems‚ racism‚ gender discrimination‚ rituals and others are common problems seen in the playwrights. In each one of them we can see how the characters during the drama try to solve their situation and sometimes without thinking about the consequences. Even if the drama is different there is always found
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