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At the moment, I feel that I am trying to take a crash course in learning the POMO jargon. I HAVE wondered if not knowing clearly about signs and semiotics is down to something I have significantly missed between my ACCESS course and my FdA English; stuff other students may have learnt, but was not part of the ACCES syllabus. Nobody’s fault, just somehow I have slipped through the net of understanding.
I am attempting the NT2 essay, but before I do that I have to work backwards a little. I understand a little of it now – mostly about the nature of structualism.
| Modernism vs Postmodernism | |
| Modernism | Postmodernism |
| romanticism/symbolism | paraphysics/Dadaism |
| form (conjunctive, closed) | antiform (disjunctive, open) |
| purpose | play |
| design | chance |
| hierarchy | anarchy |
| mastery/logos | exhaustion/silence |
| art object/finished work/logos | process/performance/antithesis |
| centering | absence |
| genre/boundary | text/intertext |
| semantics | rhetoric |
| metaphor | metonymy |
| root/depth | rhizome/surface |
| signified | signifier |
| narrative/grande histoire | anti-narrative/petite histoire |
| genital/phallic | polymorphous/androgynous |
| paranoia | schizophrenia |
| origin/cause | difference-difference/trace |
| God the Father | The Holy Ghost |
| determinacy | interdeterminacy |
| transcendence | immanence |
Plus understand the works of Jacques Derrida et al. Busy Busy Busy.
