ENGL104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Self-Denial, Teleology, Dramatism
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More useful as a tool to study a pre-existing motive. More closely related to literary criticism, not cultural: dramatism: thinking of real life as if it were a play or drama. Dramatistic life cycle: order: laws, rules. Dialectic term (pair opposites that tend to define and imply each other) Cluster theory: group terms together to have an association between terms, teleology: way a symbolic structure is completed. Eg. murder mystery: expectation that the pattern will be completed. Joseph cambell (basic structure of any narrative: initiation, separation, return. A selection of terms that gives an advantage to the speaker: terministic screens. Use of language that focuses our attention on one aspect of an object. Eg. look at a speech that uses the idea of progress it becomes clear how those value laden terms shift your idea direction: clusters. The way in which words/symbols/categories have an implied connection: god terms. Any word that tends to become a master category .
