Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

Wolfreys, Julian

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“…As Wolfreys (2004) observes, subjectivity is complicated and multidimensional. And when we confront the issue of the individual and psychological subject/ivity, it becomes even more complicated.…”

Section: Madness Inconsistency and Incoherence Of The Subjectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The 'what is?' question itself is an old thought (Wolfreys, 2004) that spans over a large extent of considerations. Moreover, Derrida observes (1991) that it is both impossible and problematic for the formation and identity of subject to be present to it as a whole.…”

Section: Madness Inconsistency and Incoherence Of The Subjectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Likewise, in McCarthy's text Ely appears when the Boy and the Father go under extreme circumstances that redefine their faith and consciousness. To be altered, that is, to become an other or go through the radical conditions of otherness (Wolfreys, 2004), the subjectivity may suffer in reaching a state of madness that is more eminent than its definition and determination. It is likely that a theologically rational subjectivity, like Ely before the Unknown Catastrophe, has been replaced by a more chaotic state of subjecthood.…”

Section: The Big 'Other' and The Imminent Endmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Faith and Reason in the Mad Subjectivity: Cormac McCarthy’s Post-apocalyptic Narrative The Road

Taghizadeh

Ghaderi

2016

GEMA

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Identified as the core of human subjectivity, madness and the shattered self are among the issues which Cormac McCarthy represents in his brilliant though terrifying narrative The Road. This study attempts to address the representation of subjectivity's faith and reason in the face of physical and mental struggles in his novel. Moreover, the relation that subjectivity has to the Big Other will be analyzed under Žižekian paradigms. In the pre-Kantian era, the human subject was to struggle against an extremity of madness so as to redeem itself a state of reason. But since Kant proposed that the core of subject/ivity can be madness itself, the struggles represented in McCarthy's novel have been examined as significant events that show this core of inconsistency and madness. To do so, the present study analyzes his text to show the inconsistency of the subject/ivity of his characters along with the role of reason/madness and their relations to faith in the narrative. Particularly, it would be fruitful to focus on the contribution of what Žižek calls the "Light of Reason" and its fluctuations/fragmentations. The point opposite to this Light would be the Dark of the world, a dire night in which that mad center of human subjectivity could emerge into the novel's events. For this purpose, the paper will elaborate more thoroughly on Derrida's and Žižek's viewpoints regarding Enlightenment and subjectivity. Of the main consideration in McCarthy's text is deciding about life and death and about the force that compels his protagonists to keep fighting for their survival.

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Section: Madness Inconsistency and Incoherence Of The Subjectmentioning

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Section: Madness Inconsistency and Incoherence Of The Subjectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Big 'Other' and The Imminent Endmentioning

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Faith and Reason in the Mad Subjectivity: Cormac McCarthy’s Post-apocalyptic Narrative The Road

Taghizadeh

Ghaderi

2016

GEMA

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“…Language speaks us and what is language itself other than a play of differentiation and supplementation. According to Wolfreys (2004), what lies at the heart of iterability is not mere flow of repetitive arrays. It has, in its core, an alterability that moves beyond the repetitions, and perhaps even, that idea itself about which all repetitions are made.…”

Section: The Crucible and Iterabilitymentioning

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“…Discussing the concept of the other, according to Wolfreys (2004), what lies behind the rather tangible, dialectic or binary notions of the other, is the exteriority of alterity in an absolute sense. This absolute exteriority gives way to an abysmal breach in the structure, for "in the very heart of the relationship with the other that characterizes our social life, alterity appears as a nonreciprocal relationship" (Levinas 1987, p. 83).…”

Section: Exclusion Of the Other And Including Self-legitimized Logosmentioning

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Event, Iterability, and Justice Practiced in the Sense of Law: A Derridean Reading of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible

Hooti

Ghaderi

2015

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This paper aims to investigate Arthur Miller's The Crucible in terms of Derridean critical terms, particularly event, iterability, and justice. Furthermore, through in Derridean terms, and how the concept of iterability would function within the text. This will result in re-echoing of the same event through many epochs in a variety of voices. Secondly, this paper scrutinises the text to identify how human constructed institutions avoid what Derrida calls play of structure by assuming centres and logos in themselves and presuming whatever tries to question them as the other. This is depicted by Miller through juxtaposing religion and magic and showing how they react towards each other throughout the play. Inevitably, the discussion of identity and alterity (a term under the influence of Derrida) is to follow next to show how identity (as the culture that shapes it) is different from itself and, ergo, has no pure origin of its own.Lastly, this study examines the practice of law specifically in the court scene of the play to show how justice and law are perceived and to conclude that the role of undecidability is crucial to the process of decision taking in the court if any degree of justice should very like to be possible.

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Language Ideology and Public Discourse

Milani¹

2012

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

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Over the past two decades, the notion of language ideology has gained considerable momentum in different strands of scholarship that aim to unpack how language works in society. Language ideology has its roots in North American linguistic anthropology as a concept within which to explore the “mediating links between social forms and forms of talk” (Woolard, 1998, p. 3). Whilst it is axiomatic for linguists that “all languages are equal” in terms of their meaning‐making potential and their worth as objects of academic inquiry, a cursory glance at any sociolinguistic environment in the “real world” will reveal a different scenario—one in which linguistic phenomena are unequally ranked according to different meanings and values, so that, say, “language” X is believed to be lexically richer, more logical or beautiful, and thus better suited for wider communication within a polity than “dialect” Y. It is precisely the belief systems underlying such social processes of naming, signifying, and valorizing linguistic practices that the notion of language ideology aims to capture. This entry will begin by clarifying the notion of language ideology, followed by a reflection over the notions of public versus private in relation to language ideology. The entry will conclude with some current developments and directions in language ideology research.

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Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory

Cited by 26 publications

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Faith and Reason in the Mad Subjectivity: Cormac McCarthy’s Post-apocalyptic Narrative The Road

Faith and Reason in the Mad Subjectivity: Cormac McCarthy’s Post-apocalyptic Narrative The Road

Event, Iterability, and Justice Practiced in the Sense of Law: A Derridean Reading of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible

Language Ideology and Public Discourse

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