E 341 Lecture Notes - Hyperreality, Simulacrum, Metanarrative
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Other ways in which post-structuralist ideas can be used for analyzing texts. Post-structuralist insights into the nature of reality, knowledge, and subject can be employed to approach specific aspects of a text. For eg: if all knowledge is a result of differance then what we think we know objectively is only referentiality. This has implications for how knowledge, information, factuality is treated in literary works. In m. butterfly for instance, gallimard is used to deal with. Facts whether as an accountant or as the vice consul, when he has to write a report about how the chinese and vietnamese will respond to western actions. A report generally purports to be an objective form of knowledge containing concrete information. But as we learn the project of creating objective, absolute, knowledge can be elusive. What are the other ways in which the movie reveals objective and absolute knowledge as impossible? (also interrogate your own knowledge" about what happens in the movie)
