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Representation:
Related Issue Provider: Kate
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Representation
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History and Myth
Barthes' idea of Myth in the second order of signification
History as employment (Hayden White) |
Society--
ideology --representation the imaginary relationship
one has with society
Foucault's ideas of discourse and discursive
apparatus |
Subjectivity and
Body
Lacan's Mirror Stage, Splitting of the Subject
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Unless otherwise noted, the following information is excerpted from
"The Work of Representation."Representation:
Cultural Representations ">. Ed. Stuart
Hall. London: Sage, 1997.
Representation
- Representation: the
production and circulation of meaning through "language" as a system
of representation.
- Three approaches to
language: the reflective, the intentional, the constructionist.
The following belong to the constructionist approach--
- Two approaches to representation:
the semiotic and discursive approaches
"the semiotic approach is concerned with the how of representation,
with how language produces meaning-- ...poetics; the discursive approach
is more concerned with the effects and consequences
of representation--politics." (6)
Relation between representation/language
and culture--shared meaning:
- "cultural codes"--"Member
of the same culture must share sets of concepts, images and ideas
which enable them to think and feel about the world, and thus to interpret
the world, in roughly the same way." (Hall Representation 4)
- two systems of representation:
1. a mental system, a conceptual map, 2. a system of signs
(external)
Literary
Criticism Databank: Structuralism and Semiotics ;
Postmodern Theories and Texts.
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