Post-structuralism

Historians using gender as a categorical tool of historical analysis have won prizes from Organization of American Historians and American Historical Association such as Joan Scott and Kathleen Brown. In 1986, Joan Wallach Scott published her groundbreaking article, Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” In this article, Scott asserts that gender had not been previously used a conceptual framework like race and class and should be used by historians to examine their subjects. Scott’s…

Giddens conceptualises structure as rules and resources used by interaction. Rules are generalisable procedures and methodologies that reflexive agents possess in their implicit stocks of knowledge and that they use as methods for action in social systems. These rules of structure disclose a number of important properties: they are implicitly known; informal; widely sanctioned; frequently invoked and used in conversations, interaction rituals, and daily routines. Structure also involves the use…

I- Theoretical Part : Anger in Literature 1- Definitions of Anger: a- The outer expression of anger can be identified in facial expressions, body language, physiological responses, and in public acts of aggression. b- Anger is equally a matter of politics as well as biology. c- Anger functions as a pressure cooker; that we cannot control our anger for so long before it explodes. 2- Origins Of Anger : a- Anger was first to exist in supernatural myths, stories and religious beliefs; like angry…

And the extracts and essays, ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s, focused mainly on psychological analysis, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism, gender analysis and cultural analysis. Even the analysis of conflicts among different social classes and the analysis of racial problem can be found in this book. Besides these pieces of critiques, there are a great number of…

three different categories, these categories being: The first wave focused on suffrage and political rights. The second focused on social inequality between genders. The current, third wave emphasizes the concepts of globalization, post-colonialism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. (Boundless, para. 2) All three of the feminist perspective are focused around the rights of women that still apply today and throughout different parts of times. The first wave analyzes the suffragettes, women…

factors, while others discuss them in terms of spheres such as biography, history, Marxism or even feminism. As the time passes by, the concepts of meaning and authorship have been explored and questioned through many aspects such as structuralism, post-structuralism,…

will include, but is not limited to the theory of hegemony by Gramsci; Dunayevskaya’s discovery of state capitalism in the Soviet Union; Baran and Sweezy on monopoly capitalism and imperialism; Poulantzas view on state power; Althusser’s Marxist structuralism; technology, functionalism and rational choice according to Cohen; and lastly some very important points to discuss from a Marxist approach which are class, gender and the Frankfurt School. To first understand Marxist theory, we must first…

Nikole Scholes Student Number- Turnitin – Words - 835 What is Sociology? Sociology can be described as the study of human social relationships and foundations. It is the study of social behaviour or society including the origins, development and organisations. Macionis and Plummer (2012) defined sociology to be the “critical study of society, its studies the way people do things together” (Macionis and Plummer, 2012). Sociology offer a distinctive and educative way of seeing and…

The term intertextuality was coined by the post structuralist Julia Kristeva in 1960 and since then it has been widely accepted by post modern literary critics and theoreticians .She says that readers are always influenced by other texts. Basically , when writers borrow from previous texts ,their work acquires layers of meaning. In addition, when a text is read in the light of another text, all the assumptions and effects of the other texts give a new meaning and influence the way of…

There are a handful of psychoanalytic essays that could possibly explain the views of how this could possibly relate. Instead I choose to view the theories in which the criticism itself began and how these “founders” made it relate. In order for this to be seen I researched deeply into the theories of Freud and Lacan. In term this allowed me to get an inside look and better understanding of the topic. Freuds look into Frankenstein or really his ideas allow the reader to really get a better idea…