Post-Structuralism Post-structuralism is a continuation and simultaneous rejection of structuralism – not only literary structuralism but even more so the anthropological structuralism of Levi-Strauss (Bertens‚ 2008: 93). * Post-structuralist thought has discovered the essentially unstable nature of signification. The sign is not so much a unit with two sides as a momentary ‘fix’ between two moving layers. Saussure had recognized that signifier and signified are two separate systems‚ but he
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Can the Subaltern Speak? – Summary Gayatri Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an unsettling voice in literary theory and especially‚ postcolonial studies. She has describes herself as a “practical deconstructionist feminist Marxist” and as a “gadfly”. She uses deconstruction to examine "how truth is constructed" and to deploy the assertions of one intellectual and political position (such as Marxism) to "interrupt" or "bring into crisis" another (feminism‚ for example). In her work‚ she combines
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Jacques-Louis David created Oath of the Horatii on canvas using oil. This piece was first exhibited in 1785 at the Louvre‚ Paris‚ France. This painting was commissioned by Louis XVI as it was then part of his program to aim at moral improvements of France. Neoclassical style was a reaction against Rococo levity and French Baroque. During this time‚ the neoclassical style was mostly associated with revolutionary movements. The style developed into a heroic subject matter‚ formal clarity‚ and impression
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Jacques Charles and his Law In 1787‚ Jacques Charles performed an experiment that would change science forever. And all that he had to do was to fill 5 balloons to the same volume with different gases and to raise the temperature. From this experiment came Charles’ Law. The law that affects everything from footballs to the human lungs. Jacques Charles is very important to today’s scientific studies because of what he invented‚ his achievements‚ and his studies on volume and temperature. Jacques
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to heart to paint works of art that would either create a sense of maturity in the people or give remembrance to a bloody time. During the Neoclassical period‚ one painting that really tries to draw out a sense of duty among the people was Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii. The painting portrays several people in Roman garments‚ these people are the three Horatii Brothers‚ who are reaching for weapons‚ their Father who holding weapons for them‚ and several women‚ who happen to be family
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In “The Problem of Cell 13”‚ Jacques Futrelle tells how a scientist‚ Professor Van Dusen (also known as The Thinking Machine) takes on an experiment challenged by his friends‚ Dr. Charles Ransom and Alfred Fielding. The challenge he accepts is to escape a death-cell in Chisholm Prison within 7 days. He requests three harmful things: tooth powder‚ his boots polished‚ and $25. (Two 10s and a 5) The purpose of proving this experiment is because Dusen believes “Nothing is impossible. The mind is master
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The actions of Macbeth best support the political theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau because the wicked more powerful supernatural and also the powerfulness of being the king corrupts Macbeth with their evil spirits turning him into the maleficent person he becomes. After going to the witches and being told one day he will become king‚ Macbeth is deeply considering murdering King Duncan so he can have the power of being king. During the evening at Duncan’s castle where the naming of Macbeth as the
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Discussions brought up by thinkers such as John Locke‚ Voltaire‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau encouraged the political revolutionaries in the development of the birth of the rights of a man‚ beliefs of equality‚ freedoms‚ and liberalism. Along with it came the arrival of the “self-made” man‚ referring to the embracing of liberty of
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The first artwork is “Female Clothing Styles” painted by Pierre Jacques Benoit in 1831. Benoit was a Belgian artist who “visited Suriname around 1831 and apparently stayed for several months” (website name). He wanted to paint this during his trip to Suriname‚ so he can remember his time by painting this artwork of four women in different clothing styles. The website also mentioned‚ “The 100 lithographs in his book (hand colored in the John Carter Brown copy)‚ accompanied by textual descriptions
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had to find a way to transmit a convincing message. And paintings were the perfect medium to convey a message. We’re going to see how the Revolution affected the paintings made during this time. To do so‚ we can look at the Oath of the Horatii from Jacques-Louis David‚ during the Neoclassical period‚ and Liberty Leading the People from Eugène Delacroix‚ during the Romantic period. First let’s look at the Neoclassic period. When the Revolution was close to hit France‚ Dr. Beth says “the Neoclassicists
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