Aesthetics Nwc Quiz 3

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avatar

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A temporary manifestation or aspect of a continuing entity.

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deconstructionism

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A philosophical movement and theory of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth; asserts that words can only refer to other words; and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any text subvert their own meanings

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dialectic

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The process especially associated with Hegel of arriving at the truth by stating a thesis, developing a contradictory antithesis, and combining and resolving them into a coherent synthesis.

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feminist theory

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The extension of feminism into theoretical, or philosophical, ground. It aims to understand the nature of inequality and focuses on gender politics, power relations and sexuality.

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gaze

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The concept of gaze (often also called “the gaze”), in analyzing visual culture is one that deals with how an audience views the people presented. Often used in the framework of feminist theory, where it can deal with how men look at women, how women look at themselves and other women, and the effects surrounding this.

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identity politics

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A wide range of activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups.

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linguistics

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The study of language

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metaphor

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The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as: “A man is but a weak reed.”

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metonymy

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Figure of speech in which an attribute of a thing or something closely related to it is substituted for the thing itself. Thus, "sweat" can mean "hard labor," and "Capitol Hill" represents the U.S. Congress.

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nihilism

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A philosophical position which argues that Being, especially past and current human existence, is without objective meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value

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the other

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Being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known

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postmodernism

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Any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism.

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poststructuralism

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A variation of structuralism, often seen as a critique, emphasizing plurality of meaning and instability of concepts that structuralism uses to define society, language, etc.

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psychoanalytic theory

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A systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.

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rhetoric

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The art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse.

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semiotics

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The study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior.

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sign

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Any object, action, event, pattern, etc., that conveys a meaning.

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signified

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The thing or concept denoted by a sign.

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signifier

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The configuration of sound elements or other linguistic symbols representing a word or other meaningful unit in a language.

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structuralism

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A mode of 20th-century thinking that sees human phenomena as ‘structures’ rather than elements; it seeks to uncover the laws governing their relationships.

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symbol

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An object, character, or other concrete representation of an idea, concept, or other abstraction.

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xenophobia

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An unreasonable fear or hatred of that which is foreign or strange.