Literal

Radical Notions Conceptual Art and the Importance of Language Conceptual art as defined by Lucy Lippard in Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972 is “work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialised’” (1997 vii). Unlike their traditional predecessors, the Conceptualists of the late 1960’s believed that arts true purpose lied solely in the work’s conceptual connotations; in a…

The bullfights find another form of significance in their paralleling of events in the characters’ lives. For instance, the first time they see the bulls as they are being unloaded into the corrals the first bull gores and kills a steer. This could be seen as parallel to the ensuing fight Mike and Cohn have. Mike himself compares Cohn to a steer—a castrated bull calf that grows into an ox—which fits on more than one level. Cohn is already an outsider to the group simply by being Jewish, as the…

and wealth. The author had one alternative then, write something that would seem extremely evil, dark, and unforgivable, just to be heard: that all the people start eating the flesh of children. Although many parts of this piece of art make several literal points as solutions to the problem, most of it is ironical, to call for attention from the audience, and that the news that a new proposal had…

The argument in John Searle’s famous “Chinese room” experiment is that understanding or intelligence in general is not the same as teaching a computer symbols, recognition of them, or computations. In this experiment a man is instructed to translate a paper with squiggles by an answer key, through “if, then” statements such as if “squiggle” then “squiggle”. These squiggles are actually Chinese letters. But it is clear that the man does not understand or can even write Chinese, he is just…

Literary analysis Cesar chavez used his rhetorical writing skills to explain the importance of non violent protest. By using personification chavez was giving non violent protest human attributes. Using the personification he is trying to persuade the country into using non violent protest and steer away from violence. His use of personification in this excerpt “With which our struggles has grown and matured”. It lets us know that everyday there struggle gets worse, when going out and…

day leading up to my test date. Beyond the physical meaning, it also sends many distinct messages through the idea of Barthes of denotation and connotation. It sends a message of organization of my days as a first-order signifying system, or the literal meaning (Huhtamo, “Basic Concepts” 259). As a secondary message, it communicates how busy I am to my roommates and reinforces the idea of a diligent…

and and the natives developed a bound. The significance of de Vaca describing the customs is to show how the natives he stayed with to lived their lives. The descriptions of nakednes, and eating of strange food can be seen as both symbolic and literal as seen in the following text “ Three months out of every year they eat nothing but oysters and drink very bad water”( de Vaca 46). It is my belief that de Vaca was saying literally had to eat strange foods, and he wa symbolically…

uses run-on sentences. His use of run-ons put emphasis on different parts of his writing. The author’s flair for intensity makes his style very unique. Also, his use of abrupt sentences adds to his intensity. For diction, Bradbury often substitutes literal words with a description. For example, the author writes: “And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lines mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the…

Boston, Sydney, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vancouver. They also established parliamentary democracy. The civilizations in the Renaissance also accomplished a lot. One of the Renaissance achievements was the beginning of ’’ a ‘rebirth’ of (literal translation of Renaissance from French into English) the…

What is a flaneur? And how does the concept, as originally expressed, still hold (or not) in today’s moment? The flaneur, as a philosophical and literary mode of exploration and leisure, is still wholly applicable in today’s world. However, the literal figure of a fashionable, strolling man whose “passion and...profession is to become one flesh with the crowd,” is almost contradictory with current American society. Working hard, busyness, constant self-development, as well as spending on bigger…