By Peter Grieco “The problem is not ‘what is meaning?’—if it wereone could not, in any case, stay for an answer.” To get a sense of Culler’s impatience, click onthe Wikipedia entry for “Meaning (philosophy).”Soames...
Read MoreBy Peter Grieco “When reducing the continuous to thediscrete, one calls upon binaryoppositions for establishing distinction.” How big was that fish you caught?Oh. It was B-I-I-I-I-G, all rightsays a proud fisherman stretching outhis vowel as...
Read MoreBy Peter Grieco “Linguists need to know what utterancesmean to speakers of the language, whetherthey are well-formed or deviant, whether theyare ambiguous or not, & what would alterthat meaning.” “The cat is on the mat”...
Read MoreBy Peter Grieco “. . . various rules make it possible to marry,to score a goal, to write a poem, to be impolite.” Can it be that when Levi-Strauss admitsthat “particular actions of individuals are...
Read MoreSTRUCTURALIST POETICSJonathan Culler, 1975 By Peter Grieco “Social & cultural phenomena are not simplymaterial objects or events but objectsor events with meaning.”“Meaning” for Culler& the Structuralists he consulted, is symbolic.Natural events (whether they occuraround us,...
Read MoreBy Saheb Sk The moment, when I felt the charm,Of thy soul, I was Bewitched.The first visage ignited the flame,Of adoration and I had on way to reach In the abode of Nun, No powerCan...
Read MoreBy Saheb Sk The Wheel will run,It will never be ceased.I have put soul in urn.Cupid knows, she will be always seated, On the throne of my heart.I will adore the goddess,with the Flora’s crown....
Read MoreBy Saheb Sk O the glowing Lunar beams of the night.Thou fill the sky with stuff,The rays of thy own light.Like Diana rubs her cheek with puff. Though the drumstick trees are bathed,In this moonlit...
Read MoreBy Saheb Sk It was a Christmas of 1998.When socks were filled with candies,Rooms were decorated lights,There were many packed goodies, Placed at the bottom of the tree.The tree of heaven was on Earth.Everybody was...
Read MoreBy Saheb Sk The leaves of maple tree,Falls on the grey earth.The time to make her free,Autumn is taking new birth. The last rays of Sun,On the bluish brown roofs.Like the thunder from wand,Of Zeus;...
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