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dividing practices

Literature; General

Practices that allow one to distinguish what is normal from what is abnormal, who is fit from who is unfit, as well as any number of deviations from a particular norm. For Foucault, dividing ...

intertext

Literature; General

One of the key effects texts have is to provide a context in which other texts are read and experienced. Surrounding texts influence readers' responses to any particular text. They suggest ...

intertextuality

Literature; General

The accumulation and generation of meaning across texts, where all meanings depend on other meanings. The self-conscious citation of one text within another as an expression of enlarged cultural ...

maps of meaning

Literature; General

Story or fable that acts as a symbolic guide or map of meaning and significance in the cosmos. After Barthes, the concept implies the naturalization of the connotative level of meaning.

Capacity of a sign to have different meanings attached to it by different classes. This capacity is attributable to the fact that meanings ascribed to signs comprise “evaluative accents” expressive ...

myth

Literature; General

Story or fable that acts as a symbolic guide or map of meaning and significance in the cosmos. After Barthes, the concept implies the naturalization of the connotative level of meaning.