Jacques Lacan

In the film, Ponthan Mada, TV Chandran used metonymy to visualize the shared experience of alienation between characters along with the associated class differences existing among them. The scene, where Mada is stuck in front of car, and the follow up shot from the inside of a fast moving car metonymically signifies as someone anachronous to the present century and of a lower status. The repeated scene, where Mada communicates with Sheema Thampuran by climbing on the palm tree metonymically…

Words serve a function. A structuralist would say that a word acts as a signifier and the definition that people associate with that word is the signified. A post-structuralist would argue that the words meaning depends on a person’s context and could change from moment to moment and person to person. The way we approach words lies somewhere in between. We all approach a word differently, but we seek to agree upon a definition to have a common understanding. Antisemitism is a great example of…

Introduction: Houshang Golshiri and his masterwork Prince Ehtejab Similar to other branches of art, literature has been under the domination of male-centered ideology. Great masterpieces have been most of the times known to be written by men. Even those who have written stories about women conflict are depicted women from a male gaze, either a main male character or the writer himself. The famous modern Persian writer Houshang Golshiri, who had written many fictions about women struggle, is not…

reveal the unconscious logic or "grammar" of a system. Literary structuralism views literary texts as systems of interrelated signs and seeks to make explicit their hidden logic. Prominent figures in the structuralist movement are Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Roman Jakobson, and Roland Barthes. Areas of study that have adopted and developed structuralist premises and methodologies include semiotics and narratology. See also…

Harry Coover and Fred Joyner created super glue in 1951. Jack Kilby invented the microchip in 1958 George Santayana was a philosopher in this time. He was popular for his aphorisms. Ralph Barton Perry was another philosopher in this time. Jacques Lacan thinker at this time. Jean Whal was French thinker during this time. In this decade teenagers started to have their own style. Before this time they mostly followed the fashion choice s of the adults. Full skirts in bright colors were popular…

Chapter 1 Introduction Jonathan Earl Franzen, an American writer, is one of the most acclaimed novelist and essayist of today’s era. Born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959 this prolific writer has contributed greatly in the industry of literature by producing number of creative pieces of work throughout his writing career. Franzen was brought up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1981 he graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in German. His…