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Tropics of discourse : essays in cultural criticism
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The Tropics of Discourse as mentioned in this paper develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage.Abstract:
"Tropics of Discourse" develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.read more
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Methodology of the oppressed
TL;DR: The Methodology of the Oppressed as mentioned in this paper is an alternative mode of criticism opening new perspectives on a theoretical, literary, aesthetic, social movement, or psychic expression in the U.S. Third World Feminism.
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Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality
Richard Bauman,Charles L. Briggs +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England is discussed. And the critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity.
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A General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual Movements:
Scott Frickel,Neil Gross +1 more
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Semiotics For Beginners
TL;DR: In semiotics, denotation and connotation are terms describing the relationship between the signifier and its signified, and an analytic distinction is made between two types of signifieds: a denotative signified and a connotative signifier as mentioned in this paper.
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
TL;DR: The Japanese were the most alien enemy the United States had ever fought in an all-out struggle as discussed by the authors, and it was necessary to take into account such exceedingly different habits of acting and thinking.
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
TL;DR: I know not what prompted me 2 years ago, on reading the booklists of the History of Science Society, to pick this paperback reprint of a book I had never heard of, but probably the echo of the lines in Alexander Pope's Essay on Man which my father had taught me to love.