Discourse: Ellen Lupton’s Deconstructivist Theory Key concepts from Ellen Lupton’s A Post-Mortem on Deconstruction? * Deconstruction is part of a broader field of criticism known as “post-structuralism‚” whose theorist have included Jacques Derrida‚ Roland Barthes‚ Michel Foucault‚ Jean Baudrillard‚ among others. Each of these writers has looked at modes of representation – from alphabetic writing to photojournalism – as culturally powerful technologies that transform and construct “reality”
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literary vistas: traditional‚ modernist and post-modernist. It aims to extracting the general theme guided with the applicable theories and methodologies. The course of this literary paper is divided into four parts. Part One: Author Dependent Interpretations. This section comprises backgrounders and Moral-Philosophical Approach. Part Two: Text-Dependent Interpretation. This presents the application of Formalism (Elemental Exploration) and Structuralism (Binary Opposition). Part Three: Reader-Dependent
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Jacques Derrida’s “Structure‚ Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences.” In his essay Derrida‚ mainly mentions and uses five main terms; Deconstruction‚ center of the structure‚ structurality of structure‚ bricolage and totalisation. Derrida explains deconstruction as “reading the text against itself‚ reading against the grain”‚ which means deconstruction is used for to find the gaps and silences in a text which are not mentioned by the author of the text. The purpose of deconstruction
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"You can bend it and twist it; you can misuse and abuse it‚ but even God cannot change the reality‚" the famous Michael Levy once said. This emblematic quotation assigns the pivotal basis for human beings upon which all other concepts are measured. It is the "reality" that none pursue but all worship. Since literary works spot the light on realities that people conceal‚ it is where binary oppositions are truly presented. D. H Lawrence’s "The Rocking Horse Winner" is no exception. By presenting two
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1 Running Head: POST-STRUCTURALISM IN ANOTHER EARTH " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " 2 POST-STRUCTURALISM IN ANOTHER EARTH Post-structuralism in Another Earth: A critical film analysis of a “writerly text” that challenges dominant ideologies Another Earth‚ a unique and original story with stylistic traits that portray the classic drama genre‚ but embeds itself into a larger science-fiction concept which seems purely intentional as an element
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Discuss the significance of binary oppositions in Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” A. Farahnak Looking at Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”‚ we can find obvious binary oppositions lying in its different layers. Under the concept gender‚ we can see the man/woman binary opposition from the beginning of the story. When at first we are introduced to the American couple‚ they are confined in their hotel room because of the rain. Later in the story the man is depicted as negligent to his wife’s constant
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Producing the Subject: A New Historicist Reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’ As we know‚ new historicism is the American form of criticism which is mostly applied to Renaissance literature‚ esp. the works of Shakespeare‚ and it uses Poststructuralist criticism. What interests new historicists most is the poststructuralist notion of the self‚ of discourse‚ and of power; with regard to power‚ new historicism leans more towards a Foucauldian notion of power and focuses on
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“Postmodern media blur the boundary between reality and representation.” Discuss this idea with reference to the area of the media you have studied. Reality will never be the same for two different people. Jean Baudrillard believed that there is a problem with contemporary reality‚ he believed that the distinction between what is real and what is imagined is continually blurred and eroded. His theories are overly concerned with the idea that simulations of reality end up becoming “more real than
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A Discussion of the Significance of Binary Oppositions in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” Introduction "Cat in the Rain" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway‚ which was first published in 1925 as a part of the short story collection In Our Time. The story is about an American man and wife on vacation in Italy. In the biography Hemingway’s Cats‚ the author writes: “["Cat in the Rain"] was a tribute to Hadley (Hemingway’s wife)‚ who was dealing with the first year of marriage‚ the
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-Structuralism: Structuralism was a school of thought that sought to identify the components (structure) of the mind (the mind was the key element to psychology at this point). Structuralists believed that the way to learn about the brain and its functions was to break the mind down into its most basic elements. They believed‚ the whole is equal to the sum of the parts. -Wilhelm Wundt‚ who is considered the pioneer Structuralist‚ set up the very first psychological laboratory in 1879. Following
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