E 405 Lecture Notes - Kurzweil K2000
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One of the things violet likes about titus is that he speaks in and he understands metaphors. Intended (obvious surface) meaning: love is pretty, beautiful, delicate, thorny. Unintended (underneath the surface) meaning: after a short while, it will wilt and die. It takes time to blossom and grow into something beautiful. Unintended meaning: you are always around but not always available. If i stare at you too long you make me blind. If i spend too much time with you, i"m going to get burned. In critical encounters in high school english: teaching literary theory to adolescents (2000), Deconstructionist critics ask readers to probe beyond the surface or recognizable constructs of a finished story or text. A construct is something that has been constructed by mental synthesis. Constructs are created when we combine things we know through our senses or from our experiences. They do not exist naturally; they are products of our intervention into the order of the universe.
