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Nietzsche asserts that there is no universal truth, only illusion. This is the reason Nietzsche claims that all of man's contemplations are metaphoric, simply a representative figure of something less tangible.

The Signifer and the Signified are terms used in the study of Linguistics. The terms are used to help explain how a sound, describes an object. This research paper discusses two of the biggest names in semantics and linguistics.

Teresa may actually seem to help the doctor out of his hard situations, including debt, three female callers, and the struggle for a decent job, but it is the doctor who ultimately ends both of their sufferings.

A discussion of the shifting attitudes in both Britain and America toward the ever-present coal smoke fueled by the Industrial Revolution.

This idea of linguistic meaning created through opposition comes from the work of Saussure, who believed that "Language is a system of interdependent terms in which the value of each results solely from the simultaneous presence of the others" (66).

Race and Barrack Obama

An in-depth article dealing with the claims of feminism within the pages of Steinbeck's classic, "The Grapes of Wrath."

There is a great excitement about what the child sees as their reflection in the mirror, but the binary opposition to that is caused by the Other imposing their Social I on the Real or Ideal I.

Life is a constant dialectic between collective/perceived and personal identity. Societal constructs feed the former while free will feeds the latter.

"Reality is objective and is directly and unequivocally knowable..."

Existential philosophy in Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying"

A study of literary theory, expounding on notions of mimesis, from Plato to Aquinas, to Mazzoni, and beyond.

The Big Sleep (1946) presents through diegetic construction and narrative treatment of its two main female characters, Vivien and Carmen Sternwood, two examples of the types of threats women posed to patriarchal order during the 1940s in the United States.

Pope has taken the quintessential image of the pampered beauty and utilized allegorical contrast to reduce it to a grim ugliness.

A look at the prolduction and impact of hitchcock's vision and the results in the classic film, "Psycho"

How maternity is represented in the works of Wright and Faulkner.

An exploration of the uncanny effects of cannibalism, sex, and tattoing upon postcolonialism generally, and Melville studies specifically.

A deeper look into the Movie Caged and its psychological significance.

Semiotics is the communcations theory that signs and symbols stand for words, pictures, and definitions in our minds. This paper attempts to explain many of the signs and symbols, and how they can be perceived in Donnie Darko.

The Samurai film has existed as a successful and marketable genre for the last fifty years.

This article considers how musicology and semiotics can be combined to study popular music texts that represents and improvement over traditional musicological analysis.

This paper looks at how regional versions of the same Women's magazine speak volumes about the cultures they are a 'product' of. Specifically, it looks at one of South Africa's only women's magazines and what it says about S.African notions of femininity.

Thus, the question is not so much the semblance of the fictional world of White Noise to the reader's experience of reality, but the mimetic function of Jack Gladney's narrative.

Iago is keenly aware of the limitations and weaknesses of gendered existence.

A brief look at the teachings of Roland Barthes.

An evaluation of the blog as shift-element within the parameters of modern media capability.

The Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure had a profound impact on the world of literary theory. In his book, Course in General Linguistics, he discusses language and how it functions as a system.

In Raymond Carver's "Cathedral," the narrator appears to have it all. On the other hand, the pitied blind man is really the one who should be envied.

Preparing for a romantic therapy takes more than you might imagine, but the results may be more than you bargained for and may exceed a sexual adventure.

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