My Presentations on Overview of Culture and Anarchy written by Mathew Arnold.Culture and anarchy is a notorious philosophical work written by the celebrated Victorian poet and critic Mathew Arnold. This essay was first published in ‘Cornhill Magazine’ during 1867’-68.
Structuralism is not only the study of the structure of language. Sometimes it has been regarded as , Romantic, Neo-Positivist, a Sinister Euphemism for political device. It is the extension of new criticism. It helps us to understand how language produces reality not reflects reality. It broke down the traditional concept of language. Saussure was the key figure of this movement.
Ferdinand De Saussure's Contribution on LinguisticMital Raval
Here I am sharing my presentation of paper no -7 Literary theory and criticism western- 2. It is part of my academic activity. It is summited to Dr. Dilip Barad Department of English MKBU.
My Presentations on Overview of Culture and Anarchy written by Mathew Arnold.Culture and anarchy is a notorious philosophical work written by the celebrated Victorian poet and critic Mathew Arnold. This essay was first published in ‘Cornhill Magazine’ during 1867’-68.
Structuralism is not only the study of the structure of language. Sometimes it has been regarded as , Romantic, Neo-Positivist, a Sinister Euphemism for political device. It is the extension of new criticism. It helps us to understand how language produces reality not reflects reality. It broke down the traditional concept of language. Saussure was the key figure of this movement.
Ferdinand De Saussure's Contribution on LinguisticMital Raval
Here I am sharing my presentation of paper no -7 Literary theory and criticism western- 2. It is part of my academic activity. It is summited to Dr. Dilip Barad Department of English MKBU.
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
"For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is fact."
This is said by Matthew Arnold. According to him, IDEA is supreme and in poetry, it is the idea that matters, that are attached by poetry through emotions. According to him THE FUNCTION OF POETRY is to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. He says if SCIENCE IS APPEARANCE then the POETRY IS EXPRESSION and there is no appearance without expression.
Then Arnold talks about setting our standard for poetry high. We must accustom ourselves to HIGH STANDARD and STRICT JUDGEMENT and there is no place for CHARLATANISM in poetry. Charlatanism is for confusing the difference between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound or only half sound, true and untrue or only half true. Judging with little differences has paramount importance, so there is no place for charlatanism in poetry.
Well known linguists such as De Saussere, F. and Bloomfield, L. main representative theoretician of a school of language called Structuralism. De Saussere, F. belongs to the group of European linguistics who developed studies on the language field at the end of the 19th century and beginning of 20th century while Bloomfield, L. belongs to the group of the North American ones.
This is a brief presentation of the basic concepts introduced by Russian formalism. It might be considered as a suitable departing point to the understanding of this literary theory.
Samuel Coleridge- Biographia Literaria Ch 14Dilip Barad
This presentation deals with chapter 14 of 'Biographia Literaria' written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It deals with his famous defence of Wordsworth's poetic creed, difference between prose and poem; and more importantly, difference between poem and poetry
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ which is filtered through ‘emotion recollected in tranquillity’.
"For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is fact."
This is said by Matthew Arnold. According to him, IDEA is supreme and in poetry, it is the idea that matters, that are attached by poetry through emotions. According to him THE FUNCTION OF POETRY is to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. He says if SCIENCE IS APPEARANCE then the POETRY IS EXPRESSION and there is no appearance without expression.
Then Arnold talks about setting our standard for poetry high. We must accustom ourselves to HIGH STANDARD and STRICT JUDGEMENT and there is no place for CHARLATANISM in poetry. Charlatanism is for confusing the difference between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound or only half sound, true and untrue or only half true. Judging with little differences has paramount importance, so there is no place for charlatanism in poetry.
Well known linguists such as De Saussere, F. and Bloomfield, L. main representative theoretician of a school of language called Structuralism. De Saussere, F. belongs to the group of European linguistics who developed studies on the language field at the end of the 19th century and beginning of 20th century while Bloomfield, L. belongs to the group of the North American ones.
This is a brief presentation of the basic concepts introduced by Russian formalism. It might be considered as a suitable departing point to the understanding of this literary theory.
Samuel Coleridge- Biographia Literaria Ch 14Dilip Barad
This presentation deals with chapter 14 of 'Biographia Literaria' written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It deals with his famous defence of Wordsworth's poetic creed, difference between prose and poem; and more importantly, difference between poem and poetry
Structuralism is the name that is given to a wide range of discourses that study underlying structures of signification. Signification occurs wherever there is a meaningful event or in the practice of some meaningful action. Structuralism first comes to prominence as a specific discourse with the work of a Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure, who developed a branch of linguistics called "Structural Linguistics." Saussure died before he was able to publish his material but his material came to us by his students. The theory was still at a developmental stage then--and has remained in a developmental stage ever after.
LIT 229 Module Three 1 The Function of Form .docxMARRY7
LIT 229 Module Three 1
The Function of Form
Because it resides at the deepest level of culture and our psyches, myth takes many forms
as it works its way into public and private consciousness. It is instructive to mark these many
forms and distinguish them from one another, but it is even more important to understand
their history and cultural context. This context provides an account of their use, the unique
forms they take, and the meanings we have attached to them.
The Birth of Myth
We touched on the orality and literacy dynamic very briefly in Module One, and it is a subject
worth revisiting here as we explore the history of mythological forms. It is tempting to
understand our world in terms of present technology, and most of us fall prey to this
deception for reasons that will become clear. Once, a teenager asked if the world was black
and white before the 1960s. She asked because everything she saw on television from that
period was in black and white. We tend to use the same logic when we think about writing;
that is, we project its influence backwards into history and assume that the past functioned
as literate cultures do now. Scholars who work in orality and literacy studies have shown us
that actually the opposite is the case. Human beings have existed in oral cultures long
before and much longer than in literate cultures, and oral forms and thinking continue to
influence literate cultures, even 500 years after the invention of the printing press. Myth was
born in oral cultures and retains those features even now.
A Book About the Absence of Books
Walter J. Ong’s 1982 book Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word provides a
succinct and compelling account of the nature of oral cultures and the “secondary orality”
afforded by new technology. In a chapter titled “Some Psychodynamics of Orality,” Ong
details the profound differences of living in an oral culture, and they are worth reviewing in
our study of myth’s forms. To begin, we must reflect on the nature of sound itself;
specifically, it is evanescent. By the time one hears the syllable “scent,” the syllable “evan” is
gone. In other words, sound has a relationship to time that writing does not. Writing can
freeze time by placing words on a page, but words in an oral culture are always fleeting. As
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Ong notes:
There is no way to stop sound and have sound. I can stop a moving picture camera
and hold one frame fixed on the screen. If I stop the movement of sound, I have
nothing—only silence, no sound at all. All sensation takes place in time, but no other
sensory field totally resists a holding action, stabilization, in quite this way. Vision can
register motion, but it can also register immobility. Indeed, it favors immobility, for to
examine something closely by vision, we prefer to have it quiet. We often reduce
motion to a series of still shots the better to see what motion is. Th ...
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The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
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Contents
1. The Author
2. Mythologies – An Introduction
3. What is Myth?
4. How myths are developed?
4.1. Saussure’s Model of Meaning
4.2. Barthes Theory Of Myths
5. Examples from “Mythologies”
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1. The Author
The author of the “Mythologies” was born on Nov. 12, 1915 in France. He was the son of naval
officer Louis Barthes, who was killed in a battle during World War I before his son was one year
old. When Barthes was eleven years old his family moved to Paris. From 1935 to 1939, he
studied at university of Paris. At this stage he suffered from Tuberculoses and left the
University. He had several attacks of Tuberculoses. After his treatment he was able to do
something so he started to teach and write. His first work was Writing Degree Zero (1953). He
wrote many other books like “Michelet” etc. Mythologies, our concerned work, was published
in (1957)
2. Mythologies – An Introduction
It is a collection of essays taken from “Les Lettres nouvelles”. It is divided into two sections
-Mythologies
-Myth Today
First part titled “Mythologies” contains different essays containing a Myth
Second part titled “Myth Today” is concerned with the “Myth and Processes of creating a
Myth”.
3. What is Myth?
“A person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence”, “an idea or story that is
believed by many people but that is not true”. Merriam Webster Dictionary
This is how dictionary defines the word “Myth” but Roland defines this term little bit different
from this and any other dictionary.
• “Myth is a type of speech. And myth is a system of communication, that it is a message.”
Roland Barthes
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According his definition of myth, it could be said that it is a type of speech. Like any other
communication it also involves “Signs”. And these signs are used to communicate special type
of message that is Myth. But this message remains hidden to ordinary people.
4. How myths are developed?
To understand the Barthes’ theory of Myth creation, that is actually a semantic theory, we have
to discuss the Saussure’s Theory of Meaning, because this theory is taken as a base by Roland
to develop his theory.
a. Saussure’s Theory of Meaning
Saussure was a Swiss linguist and semiotican. He gave the theory of Meaning.
According to him "Language is a system of signs that expresses ideas".
The sign is the basic unit of communication and it is a mental construct. Saussure accepted that
there must be two sides of meaning that posits a natural relationship between words and
things. His labels for the two sides were signifier and signified, one which the thing which
signifies and the other the thing that is signified. It can also be taken as the concept and the
acoustic image. The signified is thus always something of an interpretation that is added to the
signifier. He calls this relationship a linguistic sign. This linguistic signs are not abstractions,
although they are essentially psychological. Linguistic signs are, so to speak, tangible and
writing can fix them in conventional images, whereas it would be impossible to capture the acts
of speech in all their details. When we say signified, this do not exist in sensible form, it is a
thought and creation of mental image that the signifier has signified. Saussure's main concern is
linguisticsign does not link a name and a thing; instead it links a concept and an acoustic image.
That is, language is more than just a list of terms that correspond to things. An acousticimageis
the mental image of a name that allows a language-user to say the name. However, a linguistic
sign links signifier and signified. A signifier is the sound we say when we say an object, and the
signified is the concept of that said object. The said object is the sign. In Saussure's theory of
linguistics,the signifier is the sound and the signified is the thought. The linguistic sign is neither
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conceptual nor phonic, neither thought nor sound. Rather, it is the whole of the link that unites
sound and idea, signifier and signified. The properties of the sign are by nature abstract, and are
not concrete. He says that the linguistic principles operate on two principles. The first principleis
that the linguisticsign is arbitrary as there is no interior link between the concept and the acoustic
image. The second is that the signifier being auditory in nature unfolds in time only. When the
signifier and the signified are joined together they produce a sign which is of positive order, and
concrete rather than abstract.
5. Barthes Theory Of Myths
Barthes gave his theory semiology. In his model of semiology the sign becomes signifier. He
calls this 2nd signifier form. Another signified is added to this form to create a Myth.
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6. Examples from “Mythologies”
Bathes gave two examples to make us understand his point of view.
First example, he takes from a Latin Grammar Book, is a sentence.
“It is now time to give one or two examples of mythical speech. I shall borrow the first from an
observation by Valery. I am a pupil in the second form in a French lycee. I open my Latin
grammar, and I read a sentence, borrowed from Aesop or Phaedrus: quia ego nominor leo. I stop
and think. There is something ambiguous about this statement: on the one hand, the words in it
do have a simple meaning: because my name is lion. And on the other hand, the sentence is
evidently there in order to signify something else to me. Inasmuch as it is addressed to me, a
pupil in the second form, it tells me clearly: I am a grammatical example meant to illustrate the
rule about the agreement of the predicate. I am even forced to realize that the sentence in no way
signifies its meaning to me, that it tries very little to tell me something about the lion and what
sort of name he has; its true and fundamental signification is to impose itself on me as the
presence of a certain agreement of the predicate. I conclude that I am faced with a particular,
greater, semiological system, since it is co extensive with the language: there is, indeed, a
signifier, but this signifier is itself formed by a sum of signs, it is in itself a first semiological
system (my name is lion). Thereafter, the formal pattern is correctly unfolded: there is a signified
(I am a grammatical example) and there is a global signification, which is none other than the
correlation of the signifier and the signified; for neither the naming of the lion nor the
grammatical example are given separately.”
2nd Examples is of a Magazine’s title page.
I am at the barber's, and a copy of Paris-Match is offered to me. On the cover, a young Negro in
a French uniform is saluting, with his eyes uplifted, probably fixed on a fold of the tricolour. All
this is the meaning of the picture. But, whether naively or not, I see very well what it signifies to
me: that France is a great Empire, that all her sons, without any colour discrimination, faithfully
serve under her flag, and that there is no better answer to the detractors of an alleged colonialism
than the zeal shown by this Negro in serving his so-called oppressors. I am therefore again faced
with a greater semiological system: there is a signifier, itself already formed with a previous
system (a black soldier is giving the French salute); there is a signified (it is here a purposeful
mixture of Frenchness and militariness); finally, there is a presence of the signified through the
signifier.