scholarly journals READING POVERTY IN MODERNIST LITERATURE: RIFFATERRIAN SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS ON T.S ELIOT'S MORNING AT THE WINDOW

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Nestiani Hutami ◽  
Diaz Adrian
Keyword(s):  
Main Issue ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
To Come

Abstract: The idea of poverty as the theme has been recurrently used in literature. However, it is rarely come across in Modernist Literature. Accordingly, this study examines poverty as the theme, which is also the main issue in a poem written by T.S. Eliot entitled Morning at the Window. To dive deep into the main issue of the poem, it uses a close-reading method. It focuses on how the text of the poem represents the main issue in which the poem tries to convey. To come into the results of the study, three aspects from Semiotics of Poetry by Michael Riffaterre are used, which are unsustainable expressions, heuristic and hermeneutic reading, and matrix. Analyzing these three aspects, the results show that the representation of poverty as the main issue is evidently stated. The diction in the poem successfully creates the images and set the tone that correlates with poverty.

scholarly journals Visual semiotics and automatic analysis of images from the Cultural Analytics Lab: How can quantitative and qualitative analysis be combined?

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (230) ◽  
pp. 121-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Giulia Dondero
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Visual Semiotics ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Peircean Semiotics

AbstractIn this article we explore the relationship between semiotic analysis of images and quantitative analysis of vast image corpora, in particular the work produced by Lev Manovich and the Cultural Analytics Lab, called “Media Visualization.” Media Visualization has been chosen as corpus because of its metavisual operation (images are visualized and analyzed by images) and its innovating way of conceiving analysis: by visual instruments. In this paper semiotics is used as an approach to Media Visualization and taken as an object of study as well, especially visual semiotics. In this sense, a comparison between visual semiotics (close reading of small corpora) and quantitative analyses of images (distant reading of vast collections) are conducted from a semiotic point of view. Post-Greimassian semiotics guides this study with respect to the issue of the image-within-an-image and metavisual visualization; Peircean semiotics is employed to explain and develop the notion of diagram.

scholarly journals Critical Readings of Franz Kafka’s The Trial

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ayila Orkusa
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
General View ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Literary Circles

Abstract The Trial (1925) yields to interpretations within and outside the literary circles and the general view has been that the text is obscured. This popular submission has affected scholarly attention on the text, but this does not dissuade critical studies on the text. This study engages critical readings of The Trial, paying attention to the theoretical and conceptual frameworks that have formed the grounds of being for such readings, as well as topical and thematic issues in the text. Thus, this paper answers the question on the techniques of studying The Trial. The recent and less recent works on The Trial respectively give attention to both material and nonmaterial worlds as captured in the text. This study explores the historical, philosophical, and formalistic views on The Trial as captured in various studies. The conclusion is that the knowledge of The Trial as a literary text possible through a close reading, even though several readings have treated it as the author’s commentary on his own society. Such readings take a position that the text offers an interpretation of a certain human society somewhere. Yet some of the critical readings treat the text as art and generate literary discourses from it. Keywords: readings, critical, modernist, literature, Kafka

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Angela Frattarola
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Sound Perception ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Many ◽  
Geographical Scope ◽  
Century Literature

The introduction begins with a close reading of Rudyard Kipling’s “Wireless” in order to clarify the influence of auditory technology on turn-of-the-century literature. While explaining the geographical scope and limitations of the project, the Introduction situates the modernist shift toward sound perception as one of the many breaks with tradition that characterized the period. It also surveys recent scholarship that begins to consider how the soundscape, auditory technologies, and music of the early twentieth century influenced modernist literature.

scholarly journals The effect of the Islam of the Sahabi after his apostasy on his Companions: Theoretical study: أثر إسلام الصحابي بعد ردته على صحبته: دراسة نظرية

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shami Yahia Saeed Al-Sallami
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

This study aimed to demonstrate the extent of the impact of apostasy on the continuation of companionship, in the case of those who were proven to be of them and converted, then converted to Islam, but his conversion to Islam was after the death of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. After the introduction, the research was organized into the research problem, the importance of the topic, the reasons for choosing it, previous studies, and the research plan, which consisted of an introduction, two studies, and a conclusion, and included: the most prominent results, the most important recommendations, and an index of references, then after the plan came the research methodology used in  The study, which was based on the three scientific approaches, the inductive, analytical and deductive approach. One of the most prominent features of the research was to come up with a ruling on this important issue, and to explain the consequences of this ruling, and to link the science of hadith, the science of jurisprudence, and its origins, through the main issue in the research, which is the deterrence of acting in apostasy, from its lack of despair.

The Voyage Home

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-260
Author(s):  
Alasdair Pettinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Shipping Company ◽  
William Lloyd Garrison ◽  
To Come ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Distinctive Role

Through a close reading of Douglass’s farewell speech in London, the newspaper coverage of the racist discrimination he faced once again from the Cunard shipping company, and his subsequent account of the episode, this chapter shows how Douglass returned to the United States, equipped with the skills and confidence to embark on a new phase of his career, breaking away with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison with a strong sense of his own, distinctive, role in the antislavery struggle to come.

scholarly journals The Past is With Us and Yet to Come: A Hauntological Analysis of Tsutomu Mizushima’s Anime Series, 'Another'

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Luke Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Unexpected Death ◽  
Intergenerational Effects ◽  
War Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come

Japanese director Tsutomu Mizushima’s 2012 animated television series, Another, presents a narrative whereby one social group’s refusal to accept an unexpected death triggers an intergenerational curse. This paper takes a close reading of Mizushima’s anime, showing how its narrative contends that the present—and by default the future—is not self-sufficient but instead relies upon understandings of the past. The analysis uses the lens of Jacques Derrida’s theory of hauntology, which opens up a space for discursive accounts of the presence of the past in the present and its influence on the future, and therefore serves as a powerful tool for interrogating questions of war memory. I demonstrate that Another exemplifies the use of anime as a critical medium, showing how it uses allegory to explore the motivations and consequences of Japan’s lack of a dominant historical narrative about the war and the resulting intergenerational effects of this historical consciousness problem. As Japan continues to debate remilitarisation and the fate of Article 9 in its constitution, it seems particularly apt to revisit Mizushima’s Another, which illustrates the dangers of ignoring the spectre of history.

scholarly journals ICONIC REPRESENTATION OF BALOCH CULTURE: A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hussain ◽  
Muhammad Amjad ◽  
Kalsoom Bugti
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Iconic Representation ◽  
Cultural Images ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
Research Endeavor ◽  
The Invisible

The present paper analyzes cultural attires and appearances of Marri and Bugti tribes in Balochistan to find out latent meanings attached to these artifacts. In doing so, the study uses Peirce’s framework of semiotics- an iconic perspective. The analysis has been carried out with the help of close reading (Semiotic perspective) of the cultural images and appearances. The results reveal underlying multi-meanings attached to these images and appearances. The findings reflect the richness and diversity of Marri and Bugti cultures and the invisible representational meanings of these objects. This research endeavor may be helpful to promote pluralism, harmony and enhance intercultural awareness necessary for understanding cultural diversities within and across societies. More so, future researchers can explore cultural objects and appearances of Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtuns, Urdu speaking, and Saraiki people by applying various frameworks of semiotics.

Three Lessons from the History of a Book

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
pp. 759-764
Author(s):  
Eric Slauter
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Latino Identity ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Printed Materials

How Do Printed Objects Help Political Subjects Make and Remake Worlds? This is One of the Central Questions Animating Raúl Coronado's brilliant book A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture. I believe Coronado is one of the most gifted and imaginative literary scholars working today. What is more rare, his writing is both provocative and a pleasure to read. Casting himself as a genealogist, he deploys previously little-known printed materials to tell a dramatic story, and he tells it with a narrative confidence seldom seen in studies that rely, as his ultimately does, so heavily on the close reading of texts.In a series of discontinuous but deeply contextualized studies situated on the borderlands of Mexico and the United States, advancing from the 1810s to the 1850s and taking readers at times much further back (into, say, the diffusion of scholastic thought), Coronado traces a history of foreclosed revolutionary possibilities, of discursive dead ends and epistemological ruptures, and of the failure of communities to become anything but imagined. He probes understudied people, texts, and episodes for what they can tell us about the complex processes of the experience of modernization—and by modernization he means the major movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for republicanism, capitalism, individualism, secularism, and nationalism. He uses this discontinuous narrative also to arrest what he takes to be a misguided quest among some in his field for a different kind of genealogy: an unbroken lineage of Latino identity and subjectivity that centers on resistance. Instead, he narrates the making of a people as the unintended consequence of individuals who had hoped and failed to make a nation.

Schibboleth

Shibboleth ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 50-68
Author(s):  
Marc Redfield
Keyword(s):  
Test Word ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
To Come ◽  
Multiple Languages

The word shibboleth appears in two poems of Celan’s: “Schibboleth” and “In eins.” Both poems seem to bring this word close to the semantic field of slogan, refusing it the meaning of test-word as phoneme, though a close reading of “In eins” reveals that the poem multiplies possible referents for this word within the poem, through and as multiple citations in multiple languages. The poem addresses itself to and declares itself for an international socialism, yet also holds itself open to a shibboleth-to-come. Shibboleth would be this exposed word, the breath-turn or Atemwende evoked in Celan’s Meridian, an in-eins (in-one) irreducible to identity.

scholarly journals Internet memes as internet signs: A semiotic view of digital culture

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Cannizzaro
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Transmission ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Selfish Gene ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Peircean Semiotics

This article argues for a clearer framework of internet-based “memes”. The science of memes, dubbed ‘memetics’, presumes that memes remain “copying units” following the popularisation of the concept in Richard Dawkins’ celebrated work, The Selfish Gene (1976). Yet Peircean semiotics and biosemiotics can challenge this doctrine of information transmission. While supporting a precise and discursive framework for internet memes, semiotic readings reconfigure contemporary formulations to the – now-established – conception of memes. Internet memes can and should be conceived, then, as habit-inducing sign systems incorporating processes involving asymmetrical variation. So, drawing on biosemiotics, Tartu-Moscow semiotics, and Peircean semiotic principles, and through a close reading of the celebrated 2011 Internet meme Rebecca Black’s Friday, this article proposes a working outline for the definition of internet memes and its applicability for the semiotic analysis of texts in new media communication.

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