emgilish midterm

three theories of representation

Reflective,
Intentional, Constructionist

international representation

meaning lies in speaker

Constructivist representation

we contruct meaning

reflective representation

meaning lies in the object

description or depiction week 4

scrip= tells, sip= shows

what is discourse- exmaple

It is the production of knowledge through language, reptitation, provides detion, produces objects , meaning is created

where did candance work and what did she do

pubishing Bibles, New york

where was ling ma born

Sanming, Fujian Province, China (She moved to the United States with her family when she was a child and grew up in Utah)

ling ma as an author

She has said in interviews that she is interested in routine, capitalism, and how people construct identity through work and habit.irst-generation immigrant experience – Themes of displacement, memory, and cultural identity appear often in her work. and coproate backgorund

imagintion of disater; descrution in film

Sontag argues that disaster films use spectacular destruction to express Cold War fears while avoiding deep emotional complexity, making catastrophe feel dramatic but emotionally distant

sciencefication

genre of writing authors use to amke readers self conscious and aware that they are reading a work of fiction. it removes the concerit that litery work is on of relaism, but instrad a reptiton of represtantion and works, works often imaite conventions of other works

etymology of the word serverance

Old French (14th century)
sevrance, < sevr-er: see sever v.
and -ance suffix, The act or fact of severing; the
state of being severed;
separation

when did Severance that comes a word that means the discharge -the history and shift of this term

mid 20th century, Money
paid in compensation to one
whose contractual employment
is terminated, The division of a joint estate
into independent parts; the
destruction of the unity of
interest in a joint estate

The Canterbury Tales history

first work of metaficational works of literature

Parody vs Satire

imitation vs critque

parody list

imatiation, pride and predjuidce, star wars, space balls

satire list

critiqure or judgemnt, irony and exaggeration

how do zombies tie into serverance

he fevered are a discourse/representation of “disaster” not unlike the zombie (work,
consumption, mindlessness)

the root of zombies

of multiple orgins; partly borrow from french creole, a ghost or spirt of a dead perosn, reaniamted corpse, first used in the late 18th century

periodization of contemporary (multiple choice question)

culutrual, trancational and diaporic, and feminist, (1960/70s)

shen fever (t/f)

is a fungal illness that traps people in repetitive routines from their former lives until they physically waste away.

imangtion of disater

science fiction disaster films from the 1950s- Monsters = hidden fears

Is it homesickness that defines “the fevered?” Do you get the sense that Candace was ever
“homesick?”

Candace reflects on her parents, her childhood, and cultural identity, but her homesickness is subtle and reflective rather than dramatic.