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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"differance"”.
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Writing and Differance, Violence in Language: Finding the Roots of Oppression and Violence in Derrida's <i>Of Grammatology</i>
Derrida's most well known theoretical work<i> Of Grammatology </i>often comes under fire from critics as being "frivolous," "playful," or "playing language games." In my thesis I will argue that this is a misinterpretation of Derrida's work, exploring the implications of the his concept of …
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"Why don't you speak ordinary English?" she said coldly: Linguistic Rebellion in "The Prussian Officer" and Lady Chatterley's Lover
… I will implement Jacques Derrida’s theory of differance to show that just as the “a” in differance, as a graphic symbol, signifies deferment, movement, difference, division and connection, so does Mellors, as a graphic representation, function in the same way—as a metaphysical figure of …
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Here tunggë made here slayn: Dangerous speech acts in four exempla from Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s <i>Handlyng Synne</i>
… backdrop of Mannyng’s day, linguistic differance always opens identity constructs. Language always poses a threat to individual, deific, and institutional identity, and so society attempts to control it through ritual. Complete symbolic quarantine, however, proves to be impossible, and …
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The Poetics of Resistance: Heidegger on the Line
… are based on their notions of "openness" and "differance" which generate a patient dedication to the disruption of coercive structures concomitantly with the displacement of life that builds new communities. The poetics of resistance suggests this capacity to both overwhelm what is wrong in …