AVAILABLE LANGUAGES Consultez cette page en FRANÇAIS Consult this page in ENGLISH Deconstruction and différance By Lucie Guillemette and Josiane Cossette Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières lucie_guillemette@uqtr.ca 1. ABSTRACT` DERRIDA Jacques Derrida ’s theory of the sign fits into the poststructuralist movement‚ which runs counter to Saussurean structuralism (the legacy of linguist Ferdinand de Saussure). Maintaining that the signifier (the form of a sign) refers directly to the signified
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What does psychoanalysis contribute to our understanding of the media and popular culture? Psychoanalysis is the science of the unconscious functions of the mind and personality. The theories originate from Austrian neurologist‚ Sigmund Freud. He discovered these as a treatment for health problems and also as a way to understanding more about your mind. In this essay I am going to discuss how these theories discovered many years ago have contributed to popular culture and media. Sigmund
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How does Detective Mills subvert the binary opposition good and bad in the film Se7en? Introduction In this essay‚ I am going to be analysing a character from the thriller film ‘Se7en’ (directed by David Fincher). The character of my choice is one of the lead roles of this film‚ Detective Mills. This character is portrayed as a homicide detective‚ taking the place of experienced retiring detective Somerset. The theoretical analysis I have chosen to use is the use of binary oppositions‚ particularly
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The Structure of Myth and the Structure of Western Film Based on Saussure (1974)‚ structuralism is a theoretical method derived from his theoritical work. He divides language into two component parts which together produce a third (signifier‚ signified and meaning). According to him‚ meaning is produced through a process of combination and selection. As Saussure insists‚ “In language‚ there are only differences without positive terms… language has neither ideas not sounds that existed before
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Metonymy – is a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related or which it is a part i.e. substitution of one word for another. (metonymy combines). The cup was drunk. Jacques Lacan; (1901-1981) believed
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the European enlightenment of the 18th century. In disputing past assumptions postmodernists generally display a preoccupation with the inadequacy of language as a mode of communication. One such famous postmodernist theorist is French philosopher Jacques
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In the Modernist Mirror: Jacques Tati and the Parisian Landscape Author(s): Lee Hilliker Source: The French Review‚ Vol. 76‚ No. 2 (Dec.‚ 2002)‚ pp. 318-329 Published by: American Association of Teachers of French Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3132711 Accessed: 25/11/2009 13:02 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides
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be seen predominantly in Europe ’s society‚ economy‚ as well as their political systems. Two theorists who were especially essential to the Age of Enlightenment were Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Montesquieu who was originally known as Charles Louis de Secondat‚ Baron de la Brede et de. The more influential of these two‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ philosophized and wrote on nearly everything from the corruption of humanity to education to even music. Montesquieu philosophized and satirized and established
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In June‚ French President Jacques Chirac revealed that nuclear tests would be conducted in the Pacific at the Mururoa coral atoll. These tests‚ Chirac‚ stated‚ would consist of eight nuclear explosions in a tunnel 1‚800 to 3‚000 feet below Mururoa beginning in September up until May 96. Chirac declares that these tests are necessary for computer simulation in the future. France has been bombarded with criticism‚ not only from environmental activists‚ but also from political standpoints. Japan
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A. Introduction Background In this paper‚ the topic I would like to discuss deeper is the inconsistency of the text. That’s because the inconsistency can be seen and analyze in many form inside of the text. The inconsistency can be seen in the form of the contradictory words or phrases‚ and also from the shifts or instability in the continuity of text. The text which I will use in this paper is the song lyric. The title is “Come Undone” sang by Robbie Williams. This song was written by Robbie Williams
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