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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"The Death of the Author"”.
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Multiple Layers and Flavors: The “Death of the Author” in Like Water for Chocolate
<p>First published in 1989 in Spanish and then in 1992 in English, Laura Esquivel's <em>Like Water for Chocolate</em> is one of the best known Mexican literary works in the United States. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, Esquivel's novel has inspired great diversity of critical …
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A gênese social dos valores morais no último Lukács
The difficulties of the contemporary philosophical debate in dealing with specifically moral problems, as they are enunciated by the obstacles of individuation developed by the new social relations, in addition to the opportunistic use of morality by neofascism, go back to the diagnosis of the …
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Severed texts : aspects of aestheticization in Roland Barthes’ post-structural writings
This thesis contributes 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. …
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Free falling bird : an encounter with the Trojan women of Euripides.
The focus of this research relates to finding praxis for making theatre within a contemporary feminist framework with specific emphasis on writing for the theatre. It explores ways of opening up the possibility of feminist conversations beginning with the written text and how playwriting may …
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The human lefts series: postmodern self-reflexivity and post -independence Singaporean theater
… serves as a significant formal documentation of the postmodern self-reflexive theatre in the postmodern and post-independence Singapore. Through the Human Lefts Series, which I conceptualised and performed between 2005 and 2009, we are able to look at postmodern Singapore theatre beyond issues …
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Autobiographical intentions and interpretations: Marie Cardinal, Annie Leclerc
This thesis seeks to provide new readings of the autobiographical fictions of Marie Cardinal and Annie Leclerc. The study has three central aims. Firstly, to present a comparative overview of Cardinal's 'Les Mots pour le dire' and Leclerc's 'Exercices de mémoire'; secondly, to explore the …