ENGA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Epistemological Pluralism, Anthony Hecht, Dover Beach
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Lec 1: the world began to look like a place where everything was an effect of power. Who had it, who didn"t, who lost it, who gained it. We no longer lived in a world imagined as an ordered creation of god or nature; we lived in a political world. With the bare stage except for the tree, and the country road that begins we don"t know where: waiting is an awareness of being brought on by an absence of doing. Structuralism was a literary movement primarily concerned with understanding how language works as a system of meaning production. The overarching notion that meaning does not exist outside of the text, and therefore meaning is not fixed but contingent and unstable. Language is made up of units that do not contain inherent meaning and relate to other units (or signifiers) only through their difference. Meaning is therefore constantly deferred, never landing in one place or becoming stable.
