Although perspectives and values change with time‚ ideas and concepts can transcend. The gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the science fiction film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott although composed over one hundred years apart contain the same perennial concepts on the nature of humanity. This is portrayed through notions of dehumanization‚ monstrosity and redemption‚ of the “indistinguishable” creator and creature relationship. The romanticist Shelly wrote her gothic novel the
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ALLITERATION is the repetition of consonant sounds in a series of words. If the consonants are the same but the sounds are different they do not alliterate. eg. "...the grease that kisses the onions with a hiss." from WILLIAM STREET by Kenneth Slessor ALLUSION is the reference to well-known figures and/or other texts eg. "And thrice I heard the Cock crow thinking I knew it’s meaning well." from COCK CROW by Rosemary Dobson The reference here is to the denial of Jesus after his arrest by
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An Interview With Letters Magazine Teaching Writing Through Art By Katherine Rushforth Nelson Smith * Eng. 423 * 10. 25. 2012 * blowing scarves * red hat * whispering * matching pants * rosey cheeks * bunded boy & girl * black hair * gathering clouds * hands in pockets Above Diagram: “Learning to Look”-- Art through writing activity-- Bonnie Katzive An Interview With: Bonnie Katzive How can you successfully teach writing through art? When I asked Bonnie Katzive for an interview
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that is shocked and disgusted at the plight of fellow mortals. Her sensitive soul is deeply affected by the maladies that lie deeply ingrained in the social matrix. In the poem Afterwards -- no intertextuality with Hardy’s poem -- written when the poet was in her teens‚ she questions the notions of scientific progress that has ushered the nuclear holocaust: " Son of my womb‚
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In other words‚ Beaugrande and Dressler believe that in addition to cohesion‚ the text should meet the other six standards of textuality‚ i.e. coherence‚ intentionality‚ acceptability‚ informativity‚ situationality‚ and intertextuality‚ in order to be efficiently communicative. Beaugrande and Dressler (1981: 3) state that “the surface components depend upon each other according to grammatical forms and conventions‚ such that cohesion rests upon grammatical dependencies.” They
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Away by Michael Gow Half-Yearly Revision Act-by-Act Summary / Structure Genre: Form (Drama) As Away is a drama‚ it will be important for you to discuss the unique features of this form. You may wish to consider the following: Intertextuality: Shakespearean texts Away begins with the final scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (a comedy) and ends with a production of King Lear (a tragedy). These two texts frame the play and develop its major theme of reconciliation. Structurally‚ the orientation
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Away Set in the Australian summer of 1967‚ Michael Gow’s Away is an elaborate play which explores the ideas of self- discovery and change. Through the war affected nation‚ three families‚ each from different social classes‚ depart on an iconic Australian holiday to the beach. In the play‚ Gow utilises the characters to demonstrate that going away physically is intrinsically linked to their mental developments. With the help of references to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer night’s Dream‚ Away uses Gwen
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3 1 Semiotic Analysis I face this assignment—explaining semiotics and showing how it can be applied to television and popular culture to those who know little or nothing about the subject—with a certain amount of apprehension. I’m not sure whether semiotics is a subject‚ a movement‚ a philosophy‚ or a cultlike religion. I do know that there is a large and rapidly expanding literature on the subject and that many of the writings of semioticians are difficult to understand and highly technical
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is no such thing as a wholly original work of literature. All books borrow situations‚ ideas‚ and themes. -There’s only one story. “When a new work is created‚ it is set among the monuments‚ adding to and altering the order.” –T.S. Eliot -Intertextuality: the ongoing interaction between poems or stories. This link deepens reading‚ adding multiple levels of meaning to a work. Connections: -Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder: Through Sophie’s travels she meets characters from other works of
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Intertexuality is quite different to those of others as it subverts and perverts itself all in a hope of overthrowing questioning and undermining its significance to its culture of the day in which it is created. Another individual factor of its intertextuality is the perverse nature of Gothicism to reflect human Fears and Insecurities. Some would say that it is human nature to be fascinated with terror. The sheer unaltered fear one can feel brings an exalted‚ intrigued adrenalin rush‚ which draws us
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