Applied Poststructuralism Italo Calvino S A Sign In Space
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Applied Poststructuralism Italo Calvino S A Sign In Space
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Author : Kwan Lung Chan
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2020-09-25
Applied Poststructuralism Italo Calvino S A Sign In Space written by Kwan Lung Chan and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-25 with Literary Collections categories.
Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: B, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, language: English, abstract: This essay tries to apply the poststructuralist viewpoint onto Italo Calvino’s book "The complete cosmicomics". According to Barry (2017), the poststructuralists look into paradoxes and uncertainties as they think that signs’ meanings depend on the perceiver, and different people would have different perceptions. There is no way to be certain whether an author is conveying the meanings as such, as language has its own limitation too, i.e. it is limited to the words that can be used in the language and the meaning can vary according to time and place, not to mention the perception of different people. A Sign in Space explores how signs can be unreliable and meaningless by constantly creating paradoxes: the ‘idea of sign making’ paradox, the omnipotence paradox and the ‘existence of space’ paradox. It also explores how our perceptions can be unreliable by looking into the narrator’s perception over Kgwgk’s sign erasure action.
Power And Literature
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Author : Florin Oprescu
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-08-21
Power And Literature written by Florin Oprescu and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse). It shows that, in a society facing the excess of power in its various forms, novelistic fiction mediates knowledge about societal Power structures and uses specific strategies to subvert and denounce them. The first part of the study is theoretical: it presents some of the most prominent theories of Power, from Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche to Weber, Dahl, Lukes, Parsons, Bourdieu or Foucault. After offering a critical approach to the concepts of Power defined in the social, political and philosophical fields, it articulates the relations of Power imprinted in literary discourse within a typology of four categories. In the second part of the book, this taxonomy of Power is applied to four key novels in the context of Romanian "literary crossroads", showing how novelistic fiction not only assume a critical and subversive position against the excess of Power, but also unveils our fragility when experiencing History.
A Reader S Guide To Contemporary Literary Theory
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Author : Raman Selden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
A Reader S Guide To Contemporary Literary Theory written by Raman Selden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.
Independent Theatre In Contemporary Europe
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Author : Manfred Brauneck
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2017-03-31
Independent Theatre In Contemporary Europe written by Manfred Brauneck and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with Performing Arts categories.
Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre scene. This book brings together studies on the state of independent theatre in different European countries, focusing on the fields of dance and performance, children and youth theatre, theatre and migration and post-migrant theatre. Additionally, it includes essays on experimental musical theatre and different cultural policies for independent theatre scenes in a range of European countries.
The Venice Variations
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Author : Sophia Psarra
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-04-30
The Venice Variations written by Sophia Psarra and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-30 with Architecture categories.
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.
Reading The Graphic Surface
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Author : Glyn White
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2005
Reading The Graphic Surface written by Glyn White and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Design categories.
The immediate purpose of this book is to construct a vocabulary for the literary study of graphic texteual phenomena. -- introd.
History And Poetics Of Intertextuality
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Author : Marko Juvan
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2008
History And Poetics Of Intertextuality written by Marko Juvan and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
The poetics of intertextuality proposed in this book, based mainly on semiotics, elucidates factors determining the socio-historically elusive border between general intertextuality and citationality, and explores modes of intertextual representation.
African Cities
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Author : Professor Garth Myers
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2011-04-01
African Cities written by Professor Garth Myers and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Social Science categories.
In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies. Cities in Africa are still either ignored - banished to a different, other, lesser category of not-quite cities - or held up as examples of all that can go wrong with urbanism in much of the mainstream and even critical urban literature. Myers instead encourages African studies and urban studies scholars across the world to engage with the vibrancy and complexity of African cities with fresh eyes. Touching on a diverse range of cities across Africa - from Zanzibar to Nairobi, Cape Town to Mogadishu, Kinshasa to Dakar - the book uses the author's own research and a close reading of works by other scholars, writers and artists to help illuminate what is happening in and across the region's cities.
Geocriticism
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Author : B. Westphal
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-01-07
Geocriticism written by B. Westphal and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Geocriticism provides a theoretical foundation and a critical exploration of geocriticism, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding literature in relation to space and place. Drawing on diverse thinkers, Westphal argues that a geocritical approach enables novel ways of seeing literary texts and of conducting literary studies.
Institutional Constructivism In Social Sciences And Law
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Author : Dora Kostakopoulou
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Institutional Constructivism In Social Sciences And Law written by Dora Kostakopoulou and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Law categories.
The book develops the model of institutional constructivism to aid socio-legal research and to account for patterns of socio-legal change.