ENGL 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Uch, Jacques Lacan, Inventio
19 Apr 2016
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Dominant blueprint for all of creation for centuries. Hierarchical structure - god on top, followed by angels and spirits, followed by the human realm, followed by the animal realm, followed by the plant world, followed by hell. Linnaeus inherits this and finds inspiration through this for his own system of classification. Shifting type of rule starting with brute force dominance and militarism to a more hegemonic colonialism where the conquered eventually begin agreeing with the superiority of the mother country and thus their colonization becomes hegemonic and engrained into culture. After annie sees her parents having sex, things change forever. Metonymy: figure of speech where a thing or concept is named by something representative of it but not by its real name (ex. Inventio: a speaker uses inventio when he or she begins the thought process to form and develop an effective argument.
