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General nature or nature terms.
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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.
multi-accentuality
Literature; General
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.
mythical sign
Literature; General
A sign that does not represent, but naturalizes a historical and cultural concept.
