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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"signifying process"”.
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A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva
… my thesis seeks to follow the ontological processes involved in identity and signification in “subversive” signifying practices. Specifically, I'm interested in the ways modern poetry (such as Elizabeth Bishop) defies traditional patriarchal discourse as dominant literary devices while …
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Cinema's Poetic Function: Creating an Amorous Distance
… a message toward itself, highlighting its own signifying status to bring attention to the process through which it acquires meaning. Kristeva’s distinction between the Semiotic and Symbolic modes illuminates the scope of that process, the former mode referring to the preverbal bringing together …
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The biosemiotic imagination in the Victorian frames of mind : Newman, Eliot and Welby
… its emphasis on the coordination of organic life processes on all levels, from simple cells to human beings, via semiotic interactions that depend on interpretation, communication and learning, and its consequent refusal of Cartesian divide, all find distinct resonances with these earlier …
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T. S. Eliot's aesthetics of immediacy: Language and perception in Knowledge and Experience, The Waste Land and Four Quartets
… and defines experience as the interpretative process of perception. Eliot’s career appears as a series of attempts to express this world-view: he elaborates this notion of reality in his philosophical writing, translates it into a set of premises on aesthetics in his criticism on anthropology …