Teresa Hugo ENC 1939: College Writing II Scarlett Rooney October 2, 2012 The Photographic Essay W.J.T Mitchell believes that “Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not photography.” (Mitchell 510) That would lead one to question where do images end and words begin? Mitchell would answer with the word “ekpharisis” (Mitchell 509), meaning that words give a voice to the photo. Victor Burgin and Ronald Barth have opposing views as to how this occurs. Roland Barth would argue
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MEMISIS-IMITATION- A CONCEPT OF PLATO IN REPUBLIC ART- ESSENCE THAT NEEDS TO BE CAPTURED- ARISTOTLE/ NITZSCHE THE PROBLEM OF TRUTH- FOR PLATO TRUTH IS DIFFRENT FROM ART AND NIT CONSIDER ART AS CAPTURING TRUTH CAN WE EQUATE CULTURE AND NATURE (COUNTRY) as Paz do in his work MOVEMENT OF NATURE AND TIME THE RELTn IS NOT PURE LIKE ARISTOTLE NATURE IS NO MORE ETERNAL BUT SOMETHING FLEETING AND IN THE PROCESS IMITATE TIME AND NATURE “THERE IS NO ORIGINAL WORK, THERE ARE ONLY TRASLATION AND TRANSLATIONS
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This is the definition that is put forth by Roland Barthes in “Myth Today”. Because this ideology is so widely accepted, its mere concept is invisible to the vast majority of the population. It is understood that the way an advertisement is presented is only used to deliver the main message or meaning. This
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WEEK 1: When did anxieties about media begin? * 18th century * Anxieties about the effect of gothic novels Jane Austen * English novelist * Romantic fiction * Northanger Abbey 19th century * Emergence of mass media and growth in literacy Famous ‘Red Barn Murder’ * Notorious murder committed in England * Maria Marten was shot dead by lover William Corder * Arranged to meet at Red Barn before eloping to Ipswich * Killed there and Corder fled, continuing
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Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism Introduction A very basic way of thinking about literary theory is that these ideas act as different lenses critics use to view and talk about art, literature, and even culture. These different lenses allow critics to consider works of art based on certain assumptions within that school of theory. The different lenses also allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a work they consider important. For example, if a critic is working with certain Marxist
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young people like themselves is empowering and instills confidence, respect, and certain kinds of cultural capital”(86). Youth literature is for anyone who decides to read it and its purpose is to inform on a more real and personal level. “As Roland Barthes has argued, there is no separation between knowledge and and language, and there are no differences among ideas,
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Ultimately, this photograph gains its power because it produces a myth of fascism through it’s use of signs. A myth as Roland Barthes describes in Mythologies, is a kind of speech, in which the history of an object is distorted to signify a new contemporary signification that feels completely natural to modern society. In the case of Craighead’s photograph, the soldier in a uniform is a significant sign in contemporary society, one that signifies patriotism and power. Sontag also states that “Uniforms
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Signs appear in everyday contemporary societies. Signs are saturated with a lot of meanings and they relate to any language and are there to make us understand things through relating words with concepts like the word ‘silence’ which is a sign of communication that is indicative of meaning and it is ideological, it is also power to talk. Sign theory is an eccentric war of communication. It focuses on the discourse analysis where it focuses on language, power and ideology. Intelligence services are
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Poststructuralist thinkers such as Derrida and de Man who outsourced from Benjamin’s works burst double opposition between original text and translated one evoking translators to be invisible (Venuti,1992, p6). Before the process of coming of poststructuralism into view, structuralist Saussure determined language as the examinable world of the symbols including the linguistic system and social structure. According to Roman (2002, p309), a language is set up as a system of signs and each sign is the
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