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Power is then akin to breathing, one does it but ignores its ongoing reality until one is denied it.
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With said, the method counts more than the content.
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said, west, regardless, east and literary. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 18 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 28 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In the world the text and the critic1983 edward said takes his earlier stances on the hegemony of the west over the oriental east and looks at it through a new prism that of the critic whose putative function is to pass judgment on the convoluted tangle of the critic reading a text in a world not clearly understood by those wearing the limiting vision of poststructuralism
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In the dozen essays that comprise the world the text and the critic edward said lashes out at critics whose vision looks inward at the text and its accompanying textuality rather than outward at the world that spawned it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
He has some very harsh words for deconstructionists like jacques derrida whose own vision centered on proving the indeterminacy of all language by positing the unreality of assuming the existence of a terminal stopping pointa 34metaphysics of presence34that had for centuries anchored western thought from plato to the present
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Such thinking said asserts did not accomplish what derrida wished to do
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Instead said laments that as long as criticism is locked in a perpetually backward glancing at words then both originary author and accompanying critic are ignoring the wider world in which the text was written
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When critics deconstruct a text they do little more than 34play34 scholarly games with the purported 34meaning34 of text and author
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Said argues that as soon as a text is published it takes on a life of its own and lurking within it is a series of voices seeking expression
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Said dismisses the bakhtinian notion of heteroglossia which said sees as not a very useful concept
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