The oppression of women has become so interwoven into society that it has almost become engrained into females as “femaninity”. In some way sexuality has been translated into an invisible stamp that lables ability as well as net worth. A woman’s worth thus conotates a material value. A value that is interchangable between hands, particularly [...]
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Rubin: De-Sex Me.
Posted in ENG 330 on April 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Symposium!
Posted in ENG 330 on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
”Psychologically our thought– apart from its expression in words– is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.” (Sassure 966)
When I think of poetry, I think of the manipulation of sound, space, and meaning. I also think in images. While sitting in the student reading protion of the symposium, I was not think in particular about the [...]
(a very delayed althusser) The realization of exploitation.
Posted in ENG 330 on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What is the point in which we all becomes slaves to a system, walking zombies whose only goal is to make our oppresive bosses richer.
According to Louis Althusser, it is the point in which our government or controling body has the ability to forever remove the person from that which he produces. In a way, [...]
Sassure and The Watchmen
Posted in ENG 330 on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sassure argues that the structure of language is homogeneous in nature, however speech is hetergeneous. Each language has its own set of signifiers and signified but speech actually takes signifiers from many different dialects. As a culture we make an agreement to name one things as another. The name of the object is an abstract [...]
What does Literature Do????
Posted in ENG 330 on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I found it fascinating how we do hold “creative” literature in greater esteem than we do “practical” literature. We have really molded literature into an art form based on aesthetic, and the ways in which we can bend reality. Williams brought a very good point in saying that literature at its greatest is an [...]
ENG 330 “Theory”
Posted in ENG 330 on January 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have always been mesmerized by language, coming from a family where word choice is very important. Using a particular word could be the difference between having and argument or not having one.
However, when it came to the written word I was not particularly good, and my grades in English class suffered. It [...]
