How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised
- Tarlan Asadlimembuat kutipan7 tahun yang lalu
No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve - Maureen -membuat kutipan4 tahun yang lalu
In other words, every chapter in this book goes out the window when irony comes in the door. - Maureen -membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluirony works because the audience understands something that eludes one or more of the characters.
- Maureen -membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluWhat irony chiefly involves, then, is a deflection from expectation.
- Maureen -membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluThe signified’s meaning stands opposed to what we expect.
- Maureen -membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluhowever, is placed in a context where its conventional associations are upended
- Maureen -membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluThe signifier is stable.
- Maureen -membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluIn each case, the sign carries with it a customary meaning, but that doesn’t guarantee it will deliver that received meaning.
- Maureen -membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluIt’s a sign that’s used in a way other than the intended one. So are the others. What is a sign? It’s something that signifies a message. The thing that’s doing the signifying, call it the signifier, that’s stable. The message, on the other hand, the thing being signified (and we’ll call that the signified), that’s up for grabs. The signifier, in other words, while being fairly stable itself, doesn’t have to be used in the planned way. Its meaning can be deflected from the expected meaning.
- Maureen -membuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluYou can pretty much do this with anything.
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