HUMA 2002 Lecture 2: HUMA 2002 - Lecture #2
21 Sep 2017
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Louis althusser argues from a marxist viewpoint that those control the means of production (the economic base) essentially control a culture - production of meaning. Positivism: assumption of transparency (ie: language) assumes that words are clear, there is no interpretation, they"re xed. (science view) - de ning social behaviour using natural science. Cultural studies assumes that signs are not transparent. Stuart hall in uenced by the poststructuralist philosopher michael foucault (version of discourse or discursive criticism) Cccs - birmingham centre for contemporary cultural studies. Largely taken from the french founder of linguistics ferdinand de saussure and the poststructuralist philosopher roland barthes. Somebody or through something a person is telling a story (narrator) A telling of true or ctitious event or sequence of events. Wednesday, september 20, 2017 a narrator to a narratee . Plot: the sequence of events in a story . The order of the events in chronological time. The order of the events in the text.
