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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Roland Barthes"”.
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Severed texts : aspects of aestheticization in Roland Barthes’ post-structural writings
… to a discussion of the specificity of Roland Barthes' post-structural theorizing by examining some of the themes and techniques of aestheticization running through his writing--reverie, pleasure, "perversion," and the hyper-textualization of the human subject and culture. Following this …
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Manfredo Tafuri's notion of history and its methodological sources : from Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes
The essay is an analysis Tafuri's theory on historiography;. it traces his methodological sources: the theories, and their mode of reception, that have directly influenced his thought. The period examined starts with Theories and History of Architecture, first published in 1968 and ends with "The …
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Cet Autre Qui N'en Est Pas Un. Figuring the East in the Works of Victor Segalen, Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras and Roland Barthes
… Segalen, Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras and Roland Barthes. The emphasis of the readings is the formation of the East as the Other in these works so as to bring out their relation to the (post-) colonial qua Orientalist subtext. These figures of the Other are captured by focusing on what …
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Collaborations and Resistances Between Writing and Photography in Late Twentieth-Century France
Roland Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Stuart Hall, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Susan Sontag are among the critics who provide useful concepts and theories as a foundation from which to explore encounters between texts and photographs.
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A Bruised Sky Falling
… fragmentation of the story lends itself to what Roland Barthes called a readerly text. That is, a reader may enter the text at any point and read the chapters in an order, and by doing this, the reader creates his/her own version of the author's life. The overall narrative arch is one of …
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"Canada's toughest neighbourhood" : surveillance, myth and orientalism in Jane-Finch
… frameworks based on the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Edward Said. The question it attempts to answer is: What knowledge and power relationships are embedded within depictions of lane-Finch in popular Canadian newspapers in 2007? The methodology is a version of critical discourse …
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Una aproximation a la obra de Leopoldo Marechal a traves de El Banquete de Severo Arcangelo
… en las consideraciones teóricas enunciadas por Roland Barthes y Tzevetan Todorov.
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Between forever and never : the photograph as a bridge between past and present; memory and it's fiction, 1981-2009
In Camera Lucida Roland Barthes (1980: 64-66), describes the process of looking through his mother's photographs after her death. He weighs up how much of her he recognises in the images he comes across. He evaluates the versions of her that are portrayed and deduces that "none seem to be really …
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"Oh, Must We Dream Our Dreams And Have Them Too?": Transformation Through Reading In Elizabeth Bishop's "Questions Of Travel," Carol Shields' Swann, And Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck's The Lives Of Others
… by readers. Poststructuralist critics Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida open up the idea of "text," allowing us to apply our phenomenology of reading beyond words on paper. I apply the work of these and other critics not to the readers of texts but to characters depicted within texts …
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Visual Phallacies
Roland Barthes wrote that only after removing all of the author's intentions and traces can a work of art truly be perceived by viewers fairly (Barthes). A viewer's perception of the world is influenced by his or her individual subjective history, which is the product of his or her own experiences. …
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Lured by the Mythic: Pursuit of the Primordial in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
… attitude toward myth I take from semiologist Roland Barthes' book Mythologies. Having established this distinction, I then analyze Under the Volcano and Henderson the Rain King as novels which relentlessly address the insufficiency of modern myths, proposing instead a "return" to (that is, a …
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Pedem referens: art historical memory and the analogue in the work of Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar and Lucy Skaer
… twentieth century photographic theory from Roland Barthes, André Bazin and Walter Benjamin, among others, with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan in order to argue that the indexical qualities of analogue film and photography place the medium in close proximity to the Lacanian Real. …
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Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature
… are thrown into dramatic relief. A myth, says Roland Barthes in his Mythologies, is a kind of "metalanguage," a narrative which refers to and talks about another narrative; it is at least twice removed from any referent which exists in reality. "What is invested in the concept," writes Barthes, …
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A semiotic analysis of print beauty advertisements
… Studies of Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes and Daniel Chandler will be applied to the analysis of these . The last sub-chapter of the literature review will feature an advertisement with a totally different idea proposal from the other advertisement mentioned in the rest of …
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Herferðir hjálparsamtaka og mannréttindahreyfinga á Íslandi
… (e.cosmopolitanism) og einnig kenningu Roland Barthes um ,,punctum“ og ,,studium“ áhrif ljósmynda. Tekin voru viðtöl við aðila frá fimm mismunandi hjálparsamtökum og mannréttindahreyfingum er starfa á Íslandi. Niðurstöður viðtalanna eru síðan greind út frá kenningunum. Farið er yfir …
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Returning the gaze from the margins: decoding representations of gender, race and sexuality in tourist images of Jamaica
… Foucault's approach to discourse analysis and Roland Barthes' semiotics were combined to establish the methodological framework of the thesis and to identify, historicise and deconstruct the repetition of familiar colonial relations constructed as privilege and servitude.The economic and social …
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Graveyard Shifts: Unearthing Identity Myths and the Retro Rebrand
… section will reexamine the terminology alongside Roland Barthes writing on mythology as a language of semiotics passed through time. The text will then go on to draw parallels between the American fascination with the Wild West in advertising campaigns, with corporations taking on the role of …
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