In short, what Barthes implies is that if the author is not killed off, readers are tempted to link the text with the author, his life and background. ... For instance, without taking into consideration Doris Lessing, we can give her story a multitude of interpretations. ... In short, the main preoccupation of the story is sexuality. ... The "red pants- are mentioned in the story several times. ... Within this short extract, we have a wri...

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The first part is the story about Leonte's jealousy which brings the destruction to his royal family. ... Under the superficial story of adultery and husband's jealousy, we conclude it is about conflict between men and women. ... In retrospect, in ActI, when Polixenes is asked about his relation with his child by Leontes, he answers: If at home, sir, He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter, Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy; My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all: He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me Thoughts...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

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Adults tend to speak to babies in what is called infant-directed speech or "baby talk" and this form of communication is made up of short sentences with high-pitched, exaggerated expressions, clear pronunciation, distinct pauses between sentences, clear gestures to support verbal meaning (including sign language), and repetition of new words in a variety of contexts (Berk, 2013, p. 369). ... Play then starts to become more complex turning into socio-dramatic play where children make-believe play with others and then by age 4 to 5 they start to build on one another's play ideas ...

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