Critical Reading Starting with the epigraph of “Aynalara bakma‚ aynalar fenalık‚ denizi‚ sonsuz olanı düşün artık (p.5)” from Ahmet Muhip Dıranas‚ narration of Fehmi K. ve Acayip Serüvenleri reminds a transition from imaginary order inholding Lacanist mirror phase to a symbolic order (Arıkan‚ 2015 p.386). Lacan synthesizes the linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure‚ describing Freud’s unconscious concept as a system of indigenous representations‚ based on the symbolic order on which the language
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The purpose of this report is to examine consumer behavior within the hospitality industry‚ with a particular focus on investigating the consumer decision process models. Given the postmodern and fragmented nature of consumer behavior‚ the author intends to determine whether the consumer decision process models are vague and attempt to be all encompassing by reviewing examples of consumption within hospitality industry. Interesting as it seems‚ readers and the author of this report have something
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1. There are many theories of humor which attempt to explain what humor is‚ what social functions it serves‚ and what would be considered humorous. It would be very difficult to explain humor to a hypothetical person who did not have a sense of humor already. In fact‚ to such a person humor would appear to be quite strange if not outright irrational behavior. Verbal humor often requires the use of thinking. When a character says something‚ or even a comedian‚ the audience has to make sense of
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The narrator presents a reductionist attitude towards the current state of comedy in the present cultural canon of the modern world. This viewpoint betrays both the ability of the postmodern world to deal with enduring philosophical problems and the narrator’s own perspective on the significance of Shakespeare’s works. Though a modern work has not entered the realm of cultural significance like Shakespeare’s work‚ this does not mean that modern comedy lacks the philosophical depth and thematic approach
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Fiction writers as a species tend to be oglers. They tend to lurk and to stare. The minute fiction writers stop moving‚ they start lurking‚ and stare. They are born watchers. They are viewers. They are the ones on the subway about whose nonchalant stare there is something creepy‚ somehow. Almost predatory. This is because human situations are writers ’ food. Fiction writers watch other humans sort of the way gapers slow down for car wrecks: they covet a vision of themselves as witnesses. But fiction
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Burchfield R. The English Language. – Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 1985. – 278 p. 17. Butler C. Postmodernism. A Very Short Introduction. – Oxford: OUP‚ 2002. – 142p. 18. Byatt A. S. Angels & Insects. – L.: Vintage‚ 1995. – 290 p. 19. Currie M. Postmodern Narrative Theory. – N.Y.: Palgrave‚ 1998. – 169 p. 21. Halliday M. A. K. How is a Text like a Clause? // Text Processing; Text Analysis and Generation; Text Typology and Attribution: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 51 / Ed. by S. Allen. – Stockholm
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INTEGRATION AND ECLECTICISM INTRODUCTION During the 20th century‚ counselling and psychotherapy approaches saw an evolution in theories and techniques from the use of one main perspective‚ toward perspectives that are integrative and eclectic in practice. This proposal will commence with an outline of theoretical trends within counselling over time‚ from psychoanalytic theory in the 19th century to the plethora of theories available to practitioners today. Integration and eclecticism is defined
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G. Parrinder “Sex”: (OED) i) divisions between organic beings into male and female ii) biological distinction iii) physical union ⎝ sexual intercourse Sexuality: ← Innate ← Context-specific ← Preference Gender: ← Biological or role ← Complex and changeable Stets and Burke ← “Femininity and masculinity - or one’s gender identity - refers to the degree to which persons see themselves as masculine or feminine given what it means to be a man or woman
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understood as stylistic play‚ using the techniques of inversion‚ subversion‚ pastiche or irony. One of the leading proponents of a post-modern architecture is Charles Jencks; he attempts to define the post-modernist: “They may not always try to heal the rifts in culture‚ but they do recognise the contradictory pressures at work today and aim to derive an art and politics from them. Hence their typical style – radical eclecticism hence their characteristic tone – the double voiced discourse which accepts
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of the distinctive power of visual. It is an indelible force‚ shaping humanity and their distinctive experiences where time pervades the human psyche‚ initiating our actions towards our desires and destiny. This is revealed through Tom Twyker’s postmodern film‚ Run Lola Run‚ paralleling the concepts of time‚ love and chance to contemporary society through an individualistic and existentialistic approach. Similarly‚ William Shakespeare’s sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time further
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