Roland Barthes

Evaluate how challenges to certainty are shaped by and reflected in the ways texts in this elective experiment with language and form. Textual dynamic texts convey the stark departure from established ideologies such as humanism, capitalism and the notion of progress following the events of World War II that induced a loss of faith in humanity and science. Composers experimented with language and form, attempting to communicate the postmodernist concerns of epistemological uncertainty through…

Logo The Cerebral Palsy Alliance logo represents an organization that provides support and a better quality of life for people with disabilities. The logo is formed by 11 irregular shapes and three words. When looking at the logo we can identify the shape of a palm print. The gestalt law of closure makes this possible as the viewer closes the gaps between the shapes and groups them accordingly to construct a “whole” which results in a familiar form. Proximity and similarity help identify the…

CAÑAMO, Kristianne Coleen G. 3JRN1 LIT PRELIMS 1) Discuss the roles of the tradition and individual talent (artists) using this passage from Eliot's essay Tradition and Individual Talent: “…the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past.” T.S. Eliot’s Traditional and Individual Talent, briefs readers about his critical assessment on the concept of poems as the poet’s way of expressing his or her personality through a long essay. A noteworthy passage…

The relationship between identity and France has been one colored by pride, lofty ambitions, and political fragmentation. Perhaps no Frenchmen represents this convoluted arrangement of ideals better than Pierre Poujade. As a simple shopkeeper, Poujade rose from an artisan background to become a French politician whose political views were as obscure as they were sharply worded. A truly polarizing figure, Poujade exploited the true weakness of the failed Fourth Republic, the inability to restore…

By analyzing the quote by critic Roland Barthes stating “Literature is the question, minus the answer,” we can apply this ideal to the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. We can observe the characters in the novel and analyze the ways they cope with their dead mother. Faulkner introduces the question of how one should grieve with death? Literature proposes many questions, but the reader must decipher the answer. Many of the characters in the book portray different ways of dealing with…

Roland Barthes once said, “literature is the question minus the answer.” Over the years many have analyzed his observation and contemplated its validity. It has been found that in fact, many works over the years that Barthes’s statement holds true. One such novel is “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James. This book is known for its ambiguity and has ignited countless debates over the years over the recurring theme that has everyone questioning their own rationale; reality is dependent on…

The novel, according to M.H.Abrams, is an “extended narrative” (1993: 130). Roland Barthes in the opening to his landmark essay on narrative (1966), speaks on the universality of narrative. Narrative, a semantic innovation (Ricoeur, lX), and a distinct human trait permeates our lives in various forms (Rimmon-Kennon 1). Hayden White…

script and keep in mind all the hurdles of being rejected by the censor board before being released as a movie. The censor board in itself is a cultural code that oversees the action that take place in the movie. The cultural code is nothing but as Roland Barthes says “...the cultural code designates any element in a narrative that refers "to a science or a body of knowledge" (20). In other words, the cultural codes tend to point to our shared knowledge about the way the world…

possible special focuses that can be explored between the novel and film counterpart of my choosing are authority roles, fate and use of author’s wordplay. Basing his framework on narrativity, due to the influences of scholars Christian Metz and Roland Barthes (Meeusen; 2015; p.7), McFarlane had created an unbiased approach to studying film in detail, as Charles Forceville, a fellow academic who reviewed the book, who goes on to say that “he provides enough theoretical background to ensure…

My encounter with George Cotkin's text starts under a most unexpected premise: In his essay “The Photographer in the Beat-Hipster Idiom: Robert Frank's The Americans” , in which Cotkin carves out the connections between Robert Frank and the philosophies of the Beat movement artists, the most surprising statement appears quite at the beginning: Almost all theorists, says Cotkin, who have so far reviewed and analyzed Frank's work, have done so without paying closer attention to said link between…