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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"Signifier"”.
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Cornucopia: Food as Signifier in Literature For the Young
… The following explores the use of food as a signifier of power and growth, a method of socialization, and a social construct in literature for the young. British and American fantasy, including folk and fairy tales as well as classic and contemporary fantasy, provide the foundation for this …
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
… medium. The zombie is not just a ‘floating signifier’ (according to Jerrold E. Hogle), but a revenant signifier, actively and aggressively linking with existing concepts, and transforming them. The thesis also considers both the zombie figure and zombie genre within the parameters of several …
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Folk Music As A Cultural Signifier In the Contemporary American South
… presents the nuances of how music as a cultural signifier with exceptional abilities functions in contemporary Southern culture. The novel's subsequent adaptation into film by director John Boorman not only illustrated the power of the music in presenting ideas about the American South, it also …
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Between memory and history: the restoration of Tulbagh as cultural signifier
This dissertation examines heritage as a social construct by way of critically accessing the precursors, proponents and processes of the Tulbagh restoration. This research is focused on understanding the reasons why and how, after the earthquake of 1969, Church Street was reinstated to its …
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Unraveling Identity Signifier Literacy: A Case Study of First-Year Composition Students' Communication Practices
<p>Identity signifier literacy is defined as one’s ability to accurately read – via personal interactions or via visual, verbal, written, or digital communication – the signifiers others display in direct and indirect ways and interpret these signifiers to gain understanding of others’ identities. …
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Semiotic analysis of a Versace visual myth
… contains three components, which are the signifier, the signified, and the sign. Each component, the signifier, the signified, and the sign, is interdependent thus constructing visual messages. This study addresses the effects of the designer's personal lifestyle, that may have influenced …
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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… self hinges on the subject's appropriation of signifiers. Similarly, the social imaginary could be understood in terms of the subject's assembly of images. The twist, for Lacan, is that the meaning ( signified) of the signifier can never be finally determined, which raises fundamental questions …
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Pulse 63: Live Streaming and Architectural Projection Mapping
… at Moogfest that works as a monolithic visual signifier by applying artistically mediated telepresence and "superarchitecture."
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Structures of belonging: the poetry of Seamus Heaney
… posits an irreconcilable interstice between signifier and signified and (in the language of Derrida) infinitely defers meaning. Psychoanalysis (following Lacan) suggests desire is a consequence of the space between signifier and signified. Anthropological and sociological body theories …
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L'ecriture Automatique Surrealiste Et La Psychanalyse. Breton Avec Freud Et Lacan
… accord between male and female relations to the signifier of desire, to enjoyment. Whence the importance of what Lacan calls the ""other satisfaction,"" the one pertaining to the symptom. Since love is a symptom, and ""words are making love"" (Breton), writing about love implies writing with …
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"You Are Safe": Black Maternal Politics Of Resistance And The Question Of Community Consensus In African American Women's Literature
… and its subsequent interpretations, the signifier safety is quickly thrust into a field of discursivity where competing notions as to what lends meaning to "safety" exist: "safety" is cast as death and violence, as dismembered human body, as grotesque maternal mastery, as mother-child …
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Un modo della visione tra passato e futuro: Rilievo, conoscenza e rappresentazione dell’ornatus in architettura
… is represented has no meaning the individual signifiers allude, taken in their context of the time, but rapresent a new signifier that varies from the context.
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An in-depth analysis of the psychological challenges associated with disclosing an HIV
… of ARV-treatment in South Africa has been a signifier of hope amongst fellow South Africans. This in effect has led to the government's assumption that the disclosure of an HIV/AIDS-infected status would be easier due to the treatment's effectiveness. Disclosing an HIV/AIDS-infected status to …
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Manufacturing realisms : product placement in the Hollywood film
… portrayals of the trademarked product as a signifier of real ownerships and meanings of commodities, this paper is concerned with the conjunction of aesthetic and economic issues of the Product Placement industry in the Hollywood film. It analyzes Product Placement as the embedding of an …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… This notion of blackness as performative signifier goes beyond the slavery metaphor in Victorian literature to frame an interpretive paradigm that allows us to read blackness in broader socio-political contexts. As I show how canonical and non-canonical nineteenth-century British …
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The Corvette in Literature and Culture: Material Object and Persistent Image
… and large by most if not all Americans--as the signifier of various virtues (and some vices) is a question of some significance: in analyzing the reasons for the Corvette's long life and success as an overwhelmingly positive and distinctively American car, we look at the literature and culture …
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Keeping the money under the soap : constructions of the English and English migrants in Australian nationalist texts
… 'Englishness' continues to function as an empty signifier, where often opposing stereotypes flourish. For example, while Englishness in Australian cultural forms was at times linked with servility, deference and a rigid class system, it was also linked with militancy and political activism in the …
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Rethinking parenting of East Asian immigrant families in the United States with Asian feminist perspectives
… to reconceptualize East Asian parenting as the signifier of diversity. East Asian parenting is the process of inviting East Asian immigrant children into the imaginary space of ‘Asia’. Moreover, East Asian women are the producers of their knowledge instead of reproducers of inherent knowledge, …
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