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Foucault’s Madmen and Poets: Don Quixote and Daniel Quinn’s Quest for a Unitary Sign
DANIEL QUINN AS \"HERO OF THE SAME\" Peter Stillman Sr.'s theory of prelapsarian language has several points of contact with Foucault's understanding of the chivalric milieu that Don Quixote believes to \"give form to Law\" (n8). Seeking to enact a world in which \"nature and books alike [are] parts of a single text,\" Don Quixote instead confronts a world in which language and things have \"dissolved their former alliance\" and \"[words] are no longer the mark of things\" (119). Given the dissolution of a conformity between words and things, between the chivalric tale he takes as Law and the contemporary world in which he moves, Don Quixote's role as knight errant demands both that he is true to the words and actions of the knights whose adventures he reads and that he prove the truth of these precursor texts: \"If he is to resemble the texts of which he is the witness, the representation, the real analogue, Don Quixote must also furnish proof and provide the indubitable sign that they are telling the truth, that they really are the language of the world\" (118). The narrator explains about Quinn's pleasure as a reader of detective fiction: \"The world of the book comes to life, seething with possibilities, with secrets and contradictions. Since everything seen or said, even the slightest, most trivial thing, can bear a connection to the outcome of the story, nothing must be overlooked.
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Dancing hands : a story of friendship in Filipino sign language
Sam is fascinated by her new neighbors and their ability to talk with their hands, and when she meets Mai, she starts to learn Filipino sign language so they can communicate. Includes dictionary of Philippine signs.
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'A Question of Spiritual Atmosphere': The Mystical Semiotics of G. K. Chesterton's The Club of Queer Trades
G. K. Chesterton's The Club of Queer Trades (1905) is often dismissed as a youthful work that lacks coherence. This essay argues that the six short stories in the collection explore a theory of communication. Chesterton develops a semiotics that not only reflects his larger epistemological concerns about our perception of reality and form, but one that informs his later fiction and anticipates key challenges in twentieth-century semiotic theory and its application (from Ferdinand de Saussure and J. L. Austin to Fredric Jameson).
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Little Beauty
When a gorilla who knows sign language tells his keepers that he's lonely, they bring him a very special friend.
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Deaf Republic
Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest.When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language.
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Freak city
Mika, heartbroken over his breakup with his ex-girlfriend, meets Leah. He is instantly drawn to her but learns there is something different about Leah--she is deaf. Mika learns sign language so he can communicate with her, but discovers the world of deaf culture is much different from his own. Soon, Mika and Leah find that extraordinary love overcomes all obstacles.
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Our Time
We are probably only at the beginning of our understanding of a period of time that gave us a new name for an old language, “ASL,” a new consciousness called “Deaf culture,” a national uprising called “DPN,” and a science fiction-like new technology called “VP.” The two halves of the twentieth century might be viewed as two separate units of analysis. The intent is to examine the second half of the twentieth century, or the period from 1945 to 2000. Key revelations and five critical changes during this period are discussed and contextualized in the article.
Journal Article
Jessi's secret language
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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Heroizability
It is commonly believed that some approaches of structural semiotics, narratology and cognitive science have not yet succeeded in constructing a complete and coherent theory of literary character. The author argues that the primary explanation of the failure is the artificial separation between characters and their actions. One of the chief implications of such separation is treating characters in terms of structures, agents, actants, functions, roles, and signs, which obviously mean that actions can hardly be explained as intended, motivated, performed and experienced. Survival, as a motivation-based concept, is one of the key concepts making the separation between character and action something impossible. Humans in literary narratives search for survival as an aware process of knowing and meaning making. Meaning in literary narratives can be produced by heroizability, which treats literary characters as living anthroposemiotic entities aware of their natural motivation to achieve in order to survive and produce meanings of their survival. As such, characters in literary narratives have active cognitions, and their cognitive activities remain meaningless without a process of semiosis. Applying Anthroposemiotic theory with Modeling System Theory, heroizability provides methodical tools to explain how the narrative text is represented and, thus, how it is to be interpreted properly by the reader not only to find, but also to make meaning in narrative world.
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