Monthly Archives for October 2013
Feminisms
The discourse of feminisms (in plural) is definitely an aspect that is many times overlooked when observing the way women have come to terms with their identity and establish their place in a political, private, public and intimate contexts. Questioning … Continue reading Continue reading
Feminism as a Fluid, Ever-Changing Movement
It seems especially fitting that our feminism week of readings falls at a time when some of the main news headlines are the one year anniversary of sixteen year old Malala Yousafzai’s shooting at the hands of the Taliban in … Continue reading Continue reading
Feminism as a Fluid, Ever-Changing Movement
It seems especially fitting that our feminism week of readings falls at a time when some of the main news headlines are the one year anniversary of sixteen year old Malala Yousafzai’s shooting at the hands of the Taliban in … Continue reading Continue reading
discourse of novels
As Bakhtin says in his Discourse in the Novel, ¨the novel can be defined as a diversity of social speech types, sometimes even diversity of languages and a diversity of individual voices, artistically organized.¨ From the dialogues between the characters in the novel, traces of the social status, mentality, beliefs, ideology… of those characters and […] Continue reading
Why Religion is an Interesting Example in All of This Week’s Readings
In all of our readings this week that discussed ideology, there was one example that I kept seeing over and over again: religion. In Bakhtin’s Discourse in the Novel, religion was one of the main examples of what he calls authoritative discourse: a discourse that is given societal importance and prevails as a historical, significant […] Continue reading
Simida Sumandea 2013-10-08 14:49:00
Hegel’s philosophy seems to be mainly a method for thinking. The question regarding knowledge has an enormous tradition. For Aquinas for instance the only method of knowledge was analogy. From the analogy of Being of Aquinas, which states that we… Continue reading
Simida Sumandea 2013-10-08 14:49:00
Hegel’s philosophy seems to be mainly a method for thinking. The question regarding knowledge has an enormous tradition. For Aquinas for instance the only method of knowledge was analogy. From the analogy of Being of Aquinas, which states that we… Continue reading
Bakhtin’s “Discourse in the Novel”
In “discourse in the novel”, Bakhtin attempts to redefine the meaning and purpose of the novel by discussing the non-unitary …
