First Class

Sept 14

representation

cycle

denotation and connotation

metanarratives:

humanism

empiricism

positivism

main area of research: anxiety and urban spaces

discourse

professional vocabulary

themes/issues

map progress of debates

specifics of discussion and how it changes from book/text to book/text

macro study

analysis

micro scale

paying attention to detail

expression

oral and written

(look up:split infinitives)

oranges and SARDINES

expressions:replacement and negation

Characters are bundles of ideas.

what's represented in between the details?

what is it used to say?

what is said through it?

(the example of a child in a story)

character/characteristic:

what is its purpose/function/role/value?

come up with several and consider the significance.

authorial intent.... is not the point

(long distance telepathy)

what you see/think/find (what it does and what it means)

postmodernity

cultural context

period

postmodernism

aesthetic practice

self-indulgent weird

crossing mediums

after/more/expanded-or-anti modernism

style

(tristrum shandy: by laurence ______) 1700s novel

skepticism about metanarratives

incredulity towards metanarratives

what illusions does one choose to treat as if they were real

-postmodernist function al la alex link

humanist statement of definite traits is politically coercive....

doubt surrounds the metanarratives

Forms of Devotion:

usefulness of title - sense of reading is created

connotes:associations/implications/suggestions

denotes:literal

analysis indicates that there will be some usefulness in doing so

devotion:

religious connotations

devotional books (guide books for christians)

reading would be a ritual act (maintenance and purification of faith)

romantic love connotations

(where do romance and religion intersect and diverge)

forms:

shapes/substances/manifestations/styles/types/structures

READ THE FIRST 5 STORIES of Forms of Devotion