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Text Of The Film
5,243 wordsPostmodernism, Deconstructionism, and the Ethnographic Text Anthropology 575 Postmodernism In the late 1960's the social sciences (mainly anthropology and sociology) entered a crisis period in which traditional ways of conducting the study of the Other were re-examined in the context of their association with dominance-submission hierarchies and the objectification of the subjects of study. There was seen to be an association between Western imperialism's objectification of the Third World and t...
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Their Knowledge Of Other Existing Texts
1,959 wordsWhat is? How does challenge E.D. Hirsch's idea that a text has a single meaning created by its author? Explain with reference to examples drawn from any media format. According to American literary critic, E.D. Hirsch, in order to interpret a body of text, one must ask one's self the only question that can be answered objectively - "what, in all probability, did the author mean to convey?" He believed that the author's intended meaning equates the meaning of a text and it is in fact, the reader'...
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Japanese Scholars Approach Zen As Intellectual History
837 wordsAn Essay Answering Questions From the Assigned Text by Faure This essay will attempt to answer questions coming from the Bernard Faure text assigned in class. The questions are as follows: How does Hu Shih's approach to Chan differ from D.T. Suzuki's? Why was the scholarship of the Japanese on Zen not objective? What does Faure mean by the teleological fallacy? What does he mean by the two alternative approaches he suggests: structural analysis and hermeneutics? How does Hu Shih's approach to Ch...
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Reader Approaches Texts
1,710 wordsCritiquing a Critique: Wolfgang Iser's The Act of Reading Texts on critical theory present an interesting challenge when one sits down to critique or review them. The purpose of these texts is to persuade the reader that all texts should be read and critiqued in the manner described within its pages. The process of evaluating such a book based on criteria that the reader has already established is made much more difficult by the fact that the focus of the book is to explain, in the majority of t...
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De Man And Freud's Theories Of Resistance
3,788 wordsTheories of Resistance in Sigmund Freud and Paul de Man Freud and de Man both outline theories of resistance in interpretation- the former in his work The Interpretations of Dreams and the latter in his essay "The Resistance to Theory". By extension Freud's definition of the "dream" can be thought of as the literary text, and the retelling of this dream or literary text, as the "reading" of the text. It is through the relationship of the patient's retelling / reading and the psychoanalyst that t...
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England In Line 1 And 9
448 wordsHappy is England! I could be content Metre The common metre style in the Italien sonnet is the iambic (line 1-8). But in line 9, 11, 13 and 14 the iambic is interrupted by the trochaic style. These lines rhyme with each other (daughters, waters; clinging, singing) and show a hexametre instead of a penta metre. Rhyme The form of the sonnet shows us an end rhyme with an embracing rhyme scheme from line 1 to line 8 (abba). The next 6 lines have got different rhyme schemes witch I can not analyse (c...
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