The Signifying Self

Author : Melanie Henry
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781880029

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The Signifying Self by Melanie Henry Pdf

The Signifying Self: Cervantine Drama as Counter-Perspective Aesthetic offers a comprehensive analysis of all eight of Cervantes's Ocho comedias (published 1615), moving beyond conventional anti-Lope approaches to Cervantine dramatic practise in order to identify what, indeed, his theatre promotes. Considered on its own aesthetic terms, but also taking into account ontological and socio-cultural concerns, this study compels a re-assessment of Cervantes's drama and conflates any monolithic interpretations which do not allow for the textual interplay of contradictory and conflicting discourses which inform it. Cervantes's complex and polyvalent representation of freedom underpins such an approach; a concept which is considered to be a leitmotif of Cervantes's work but which has received scant attention with regards to his theatre. Investigation of this topic reveals not only Cervantes's rejection of established theatrical convention, but his preoccupation with the difficult relationship between the individual and the early modern Spanish world. Cervantes's comedias emerge as a counter-perspective to dominant contemporary Spanish ideologies and more orthodox artistic imaginings. Ultimately, The Signifying Self seeks to recuperate the Ocho comedias as a significant part of the Cervantine, and Golden-Age, canon and will be of interest and benefit to those scholars who work on Cervantes and indeed on early modern Spanish theatre in general.

Author : Paul J. Thibault
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826492531

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Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body by Paul J. Thibault Pdf

This cutting-edge study of linguistic theory by one of the world's leading authors in the field of semiotics will be of interest to academics and postgraduates researching applied linguistics and advanced semiotics. In his foreword M. A. K. Halliday explains the importance of Paul J. Thibault's work to linguistics. Book jacket.

Author : Penelope Ingram
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791478370

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The Signifying Body by Penelope Ingram Pdf

How do we live ethically? What role do sex and race play in living or being ethically? Can ethics lead to ontology? Can literature play a role in ethical being? Drawing extensively on the work of Luce Irigaray, Frantz Fanon, and Martin Heidegger, Penelope Ingram argues that ethical questions must be understood in light of ontological ones. It is only when sexual and racial difference are viewed at an ontological level that ethics is truly possible. Central to the connection between ontology and ethics is the role of language. Ingram revisits the relationship between representation and matter in order to advance a theory of material signification. She examines a number of twentieth-century film and literary texts, including Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, to demonstrate that material signification, rather than representation, is crucial to our experience of living authentically and achieving an ethical relation with the Other. By attending closely to Heidegger's, Irigaray's, and Fanon's positions on language, this original work argues that the literary text is indispensable to a "revealing" of the relationship between ontology and ethics, and through it, the reader can experience a state of "authentic Being ethically."

Author : Judith Harris
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791487068

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Signifying Pain by Judith Harris Pdf

Explores the therapeutic uses and effects of writing in a post-Freudian age.

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199874514

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The Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly original," Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s The Signifying Monkey is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature. It elaborates a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, Gates uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. Exploring the process of signification in black American life and literature by analyzing the transmission and revision of various signifying figures, Gates provides an extended analysis of what he calls the "Talking Book," a central trope in early slave narratives that virtually defines the tradition of black American letters. Gates uses this critical framework to examine several major works of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo--revealing how these works signify on the black tradition and on each other. This superb 25th-Anniversary Edition features a new preface by Gates that reflects on the impact of the book and its relevance for today's society as well as a new afterword written by noted critic W. T. J. Mitchell.

Author : Marie-Françoise Guédon,D. G. Hatt
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772822403

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Canadian Ethnology Society: Papers from the sixth annual congress, 1979 by Marie-Françoise Guédon,D. G. Hatt Pdf

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (1979) with contributed papers ranging in topic from semiology to the seventeenth century Iroquois wars to Japanese ghost stories.

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCD:31175002302027

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The Apocalypse Revealed by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf

Author : Michael D. Swartz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479855575

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The Signifying Creator by Michael D. Swartz Pdf

This book explores the belief in ancient Judaism that God embedded hidden signs and visual clues in the natural world that could be read by human beings and interpreted according to complex systems.

Author : Jane Beal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317194255

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The Signifying Power of Pearl by Jane Beal Pdf

This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning and in four corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an allegory; morally, a consolation; and anagogically, a revelation. The book addresses cruxes and scholarly debates about the poem’s genre and meaning, including key questions that have been unresolved in Pearl studies for over a century: * What is the nature of the relationship between the Dreamer and the Maiden? * What is the significance of allusions to Ovidian love stories and the use of liturgical time in the poem? * How does avian symbolism, like that of the central symbol of the pearl, develop, transform, and add meaning throughout the dream vision? * What is the nature of God portrayed in the poem, and how does the portrayal of the Maiden’s intimate relationship to God, her spiritual marriage to the Lamb, connect to the poet’s purpose in writing? Noting that the poem is open to many interpretations, Beal also considers folktale genre patterns in Pearl, including those drawn from parable, fable, and fairy-tale. The conclusion considers Pearl in the light of modern psychological theories of grieving and trauma. This book makes a compelling case for re-reading Pearl and recognizing the poem’s signifying power. Given the ongoing possibility of new interpretations, it will appeal to those who specialize in Pearl as well as scholars of Middle English, Medieval Literature, Genre Theory, and Literature and Religion.

Author : Youru Wang,Sandra A. Wawrytko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048129393

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Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy by Youru Wang,Sandra A. Wawrytko Pdf

Too often Buddhism has been subjected to the Procrustean box of western thought, whereby it is stretched to fit fixed categories or had essential aspects lopped off to accommodate vastly different cultural norms and aims. After several generations of scholarly discussion in English-speaking communities, it is time to move to the next hermeneutical stage. Buddhist philosophy must be liberated from the confines of a quasi-religious stereotype and judged on its own merits. Hence this work will approach Chinese Buddhism as a philosophical tradition in its own right, not as an historical after-thought nor as an occasion for comparative discussions that assume the west alone sets the standards for or is the origin of philosophy and its methodologies. Viewed within their own context, Chinese Buddhist philosophers have much to contribute to a wide range of philosophical concerns, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion, even though Western divisions of philosophy may not exhaust the rich contents of Chinese Buddhist philosophy. .

Author : Remo Gramigna
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110596625

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Augustine's Theory of Signs, Signification, and Lying by Remo Gramigna Pdf

The aim of this study is to present, as far as possible, a general description of the theory of the sign and signification in Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), with a view to its evaluation and implications for the study of semiotics. Accurate studies for subject, discipline, and significance have not yet given an organic and systematic vision of Augustine’s theory of the sign. The underlying aspiration is that such an endeavour will prove to be beneficial to the scholars of Augustine’s thought as well as to those with a keen interest in the history of semiotics. The study uses Augustine’s own accounts to investigate and interpret the philosophical problem of the sign. The focus lies on the first decade of Augustine’s literary production. The De dialectica, is taken as the terminus ad quo of the study, and the De doctrina christiana is the terminus ad quem. The selected texts show an explicit engagement with poignant discussion on the nature and structure of the sign, the variety of signs and their uses. Although Augustine’s intention never was to establish a theory of meaning as an independent field of study, he largely employed a theory of signs. Thus, Augustine’s approach to signs is intrinsically meaningful.

Author : Velma E. Love
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271061450

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Divining the Self by Velma E. Love Pdf

Divining the Self weaves elements of personal narrative, myth, history, and interpretive analysis into a vibrant tapestry that reflects the textured, embodied, and performative nature of scripture and scripturalizing practices. Velma Love examines the Odu—the Yoruba sacred scriptures—along with the accompanying mythology, philosophy, and ritual technologies engaged by African Americans. Drawing from the personal narratives of African American Ifa practitioners along with additional ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oyotunji African Village, South Carolina, and New York City, Love’s work explores the ways in which an ancient worldview survives in modern times. Divining the Self also takes up the challenge of determining what it means for the scholar of religion to study scripture as both text and performance. This work provides an excellent case study of the sociocultural phenomenon of scripturalizing practices.

Author : Miguel de Cervantes
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780826506047

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The Gallant Spaniard by Miguel de Cervantes Pdf

There are surprising omissions in the translated body of Spanish Golden Age literature, including in the corpus of Miguel de Cervantes. We have many highly competent translations of Don Quixote, but until now not a single English version of his play The Gallant Spaniard. Although Cervantes’s dramatic works have always attracted less attention than his narrative fiction, there has been significant critical interest in this play in recent years, due in no small part to its unique portrayal of Christian-Muslim relations. Critics have argued persuasively about the value of The Gallant Spaniard in the service of a more general understanding of Cervantes in his last years, specifically in regard to his views on this cultural divide. This edition, translated by Philip Krummrich, consists of a critical introduction and a full verse translation of the play with notes.

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Bible
ISBN : WISC:89094613668

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The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf

Author : B. Rotman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349186891

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Signifying Nothing by B. Rotman Pdf