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Paulo Coelho Books: July 2010
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Literature Networks Hold an Annual Short Story Competition 2010. Posted by eastern writer. The Literature Network will hold an annual short story competition, which will be open to all its members. The rules of the competition are:. 3 Members can submit only one entry for each selection round. If their story is a winner, they will not be allowed to take part in other selections. 4 The Admin or Moderators are not responsible for editing or correcting of the stories and therefore the writers themselves are...
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Literary Criticism: Some Elements of Structuralism and its Application to Literary Theory
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Enter your search terms. Some Elements of Structuralism and its Application to Literary Theory. Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 1:59 PM. Posted under Labels: Literary Criticsm. 4 Structuralism forms the basis for semiotics, the study of signs: a sign is a union of signifier and signified, and is anything that stands for anything else (or, as Umberto Eco put it, a sign is anything that can be used to lie). The value of the conception is that it allows us to 'open up', conceptually, the inner world of hum...
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Affirmez la survie: 08/01/07
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Posted by eastern writer. Wednesday, August 1, 2007. Derrida's deconstruction is a more limited but even more rigorous form of interrogation. Since the "speaking subject," when he/she speaks, must speak the language of reason, there must exist some silent region where the double agent deconstructor can sort out his stratagem against the Logos, the rules of reason. In order for this to be possible, two conditions must maintain:. But if a truth is to be truth, it must be absolute, independent of any point ...
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Literary Criticism: September 2007
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Enter your search terms. Some Elements of Structuralism and its Application to Literary Theory. Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 1:59 PM. Posted under Labels: Literary Criticsm. 4 Structuralism forms the basis for semiotics, the study of signs: a sign is a union of signifier and signified, and is anything that stands for anything else (or, as Umberto Eco put it, a sign is anything that can be used to lie). The value of the conception is that it allows us to 'open up', conceptually, the inner world of hum...
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Literary Criticism: Lacan and Language
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Enter your search terms. Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 12:49 PM. Posted under Labels: Lacan. The Unconscious is the Discourse of the Other. The unconscious attempts to fill in the gap caused by the unconscious). The Unconscious is structured like a Language. Metaphor: substitutes a word for another word. Metonymy: involves a linear form of displacement. Compare Freud’s distinction to Saussure’s formulation:. Lacan turns the formulation on its head:. Sexuality and Sexual Difference. Freud takes one of the m...
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Literary Criticism: Cogito Ergo Sum
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Enter your search terms. Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 1:10 PM. Posted under Labels: Literary Terms. The demonstrations are, at the very least, suggestive of the necessity for the kind of theatrical cunning that Descartes himself employs to get what he calls his “Archimedes’ point” across. Having first of all doubted the words of the authorities (which is always easy to do- why should we believe Aristotle or Plato when even they often contradict each other? The Cartesian Subject is not a Subject. No indeed...
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Paulo Coelho Books: November 2007
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Paulo Coelho: The Confessions of a Pilgrim (1999). Posted by eastern writer. Tuesday, November 20, 2007. Links to this post. Veronika Decides to Die (1998). Posted by eastern writer. On 11 November 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had – at last! 8211; arrived. She carefully cleaned the room that she rented in a convent, turned off the heating, brushed her teeth and lay down. To her surprise, though, the first line of text shook her out of her natural passivity (the tranquillizers ha...
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Literary Criticism: January 2008
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Enter your search terms. Paul de Man’s “Semiology and Rhetoric”. Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 1:18 PM. Posted under Labels: Paul de Man. De Man begins by noting a decline in what he calls “formalist and intrinsic criticism.” And he accounts for this by observing an increasing interest in reference amongst literary critics. What is at stake? Now Richards would perhaps have been surprised to hear his idea of form described in terms of the metaphor of inside and outside. How does the metaphor work? 8221; Arg...
