It questions the author's role with regard to a text, suggesting the role of an author as a person who loses himself and his identity in the creation of his text. He then defines the author as someone who takes responsibility for this text and helps to shape its meaning. ... The vivid description of the "savages" within the text, are a crucial factor within the novel, and help to shape the thoughts and images as seen by the reader. ... Foucault regards text as being taken on "face value", with the reader looking at what is written, not who is writing. ... The role of the author and that...

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Critical Theories Deal with knowledge through interpretation to understand the meaning of human text and symbolic expressions including interpretation of texts themselves interpret other texts. ... Text is unified whole. There is nothing outside the text, everything is within the text. ... According to new criticism, in order to understand text we have to detach the text from context. ... He focused on the unity of text. ...

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Initial efforts were made by Formalists and the New Critics who assigning primary importance to the text set up the tradition of close reading. ... Similarly Knapp (2004) thinks that in the present age the focus needs to be shifted from what texts mean to what students think about them and how they learn. ... Students are not trained to see how literary texts are contributing in constructing reality through ideological representations. ... As a result students become a storehouse of the information related to certain texts but not critical and creative thinkers and problem solvers. ... Simi...

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At a broader level, clothing, gestures and even sentences and whole texts may be signs in a larger sign system. ... Other first order signs in this ad are the text, the bottle of Chivas. There is text just to the right of the woman's head that says: "Yes, God is man". There is also text above the Chivas bottle in the lower right hand corner that says: "When you know". ... The text "It just doesn't get any sweeter than this". ...

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Deconstructive Criticism is the transaction between the reader and text. ... Deconstructive Critics who utilize deconstruction, as a critical method actually would say that the text deconstructs itself, and that critics do not deconstruct the text so much as show how the text challenges itself and thereby dismantles itself. In this theory: Meaning of text is found through differences. ... The "point where the text breaks free- is established. ... The text does not have a unified, logical whole meaning. ...

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In engaging with Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, a Preliminary Extension 1 text, I related Clarissa's re-evaluation of her position as "the perfect hostess"" to the atonement of her quiescent past. ... Margaret Atwood's collection of short "fictional essays ", The Tent and Moral Disorder, became essential texts which inspired the narrative voice of my postmodern narrator. Furthermore, my engagement with instructive texts such as Mieke Bal's "Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative" cultured an understanding of the many aspects affecting the quality of storytelli...

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Thus, simple devices like conversation may surely form part in the superstructure of the text. ... According to the Structuralist, Roland Barthes, there should be the death of the author in the text before any meaning can be constructed at all. ... According to the scholars of Structuralist thought, a text is meant to be studied in the particular period of time in which it is written. ... Roland Barthes further proposes five codes for the better study of text. ... It is the code which determines themes that the text proposes to analyse. ...

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The way I saw or understood the text, however, I think it is possible that humans can communicate with each other through materialistic remains, thus I combined both fields. ... The last point that I came away with from the first chapter of Miller's text is cultural anthropology. ...

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Text, and the communication of it, is intrinsic to many theatrical genres, making the breakdown of the language used integral to understanding the meaning of performance as a whole. ... For example, Shakespeare's London was a direct representation of life in Jacobean/Elizabethan England in terms of the ideology inflicted upon the characters and expressed through the text. ...

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Structural Analysis of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Almost 100 years after the publishing of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" Ferdinand de Saussure's idea of structural linguistics was "translated and popularized into English." (Tyson, 212) Saussure's idea revolved around the theory that "structur...

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(Fiske:88:89) Therefore it may reduce the effect if the study of semiotics is used in great details to look at advertisements or texts we consider popular culture and break down the meaning instead of taking it as it is, and it is meant to be. ...

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