ENGL 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Carnivalesque, Semiotics
5 Aug 2019
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Title: what the kids called the funeral home. Home vs. house -- carnival-esque qualities: shifting body shapes, things not what they seem, sense you cannot leave. Seeing vs. reading: makes the political personal, archival dimension, memories are visual -- lends itself to a graphic autobiography, queer formats -- comicas are typically superhero types. She directs your gaze in each panel / page layout. Icarus and daedalus myths: gender ambiguity right at the beginning of the novel. Images of digging up secrets / dirt: vacuum recurrence. The difference between painting and poetry: different culture leads us to interpret it. / image: continuity: these are rules governed by culture they aren"t inherent. Signs are everywhere -- nothing is not a sign. Peirce: semiotics: index: causation of something, icon: representation through convention (visual) -- no natural relationship between the two, symbol: no natural connection -- signifier.
