form of expression, grammatical construction, phrase, etc peculiar to a language;

a peculiarity of phraseology approved by the usage of a language; and often having a signification other than its grammatical or logical one:

expressions unique to a language

ex.) Dig the idiom; easy as pie

Any principle or precept expressed in few words, a short pithy sentence containing a truth of general import; a maxim

ex.) Cant beat hens to make them lay

The Purloined Letter

Dupin also in:

 Murders in the Rue Morgue

and

The Mystery of Marie Roget

A Scandal in Bohemia

**"A Study In Scarlet" Watson comparse Holmes to Dupin

1.)An edition, esp of the complete works of a classical author, containing the notes of various commentators or editors

2.) Used to denote an edition, usually of an author's complete works, containing variant readings from manuscripts or earlier editions

Doesnt see Society in concentric circles. Series of conversations that may or may not be related, all bond by culture though.

Puts lit and non-lit on same level

The idea that human races originated from different lineages

May argue for race as species

(Sexual direction of energy unlike displacement)

Object upon which, denial of castrated mom side-steps issue/substitues for missing penis. Anxioty turned fetish because of fear of castration

6 months of age, get impulses, at certain point they see itself in a mirror, and will become a choerent self

*Process of identifiying self through seeing reflection

*1st other

baby, narcassistic reflection, sees the world as a reflection of self

Subject's projection of itself before while still in the realm fo the imaginary, just prior to entering into the symbolic order: the image of one's self in the mirror, sees and understands it to be one's self.

1.) an allegory of psychoanalysis as it occurs in a theraputic relationship

2.) an account of psychological relations

a) occurs in time (in the course of a relationship in historical time/over course of a narrative)

 b) occurs out of time (or all the time): w/in mind of the individual

3.) a story to be engaged on its own terms (it has its own excesses and 'reminders')

1.) story is framed, unnamed narrator telling story of a story of a story = "filter"

2.) Intersubjectivity- exchange between subjects

3.) Movement of signifier, transaction

1.) material medium that concret discourse borrows from language

2.) unit being by nature a symbol of absence

3.) signifier is not functional, not exagusted by the fact that its been used

* determins roles of characters

privilleged speech over writing

Treats writing as debased or contaminated thought: writing as impure

tries to subvert the higher arcy and place writing over speech--logocentrism?

1.) Written text is a sight of endless play w/

2.) no fixed meaning of the text

Paul de Man--Blindness and insight

Harold Bloom--A map of misreading

Geoffery Hartman--Beyond Formalism

Lack in its place

Sounds exactly the same with accent: Has its place, or in its place, can only see the difference

generally, in reference to painting, subordinate or accessory to the main subject; embellishment

DERRIDA: the parergon "inscribes something which comes as an extra exterior to the proper field"--Derrida The truth in Painting

The art or science of interrpretation, esp. of scripture. Commonly distingushed from exregesis or practical exposition

Ex.) J. Macquarrie "God-talk"

A written signature implies the actual or empirical nonpressence of the signer. But it will be said, it also marks and retains his having been present in a past now which will remain a future now

Derrida--Margins of Philosophy

Destin= destiny

Dessein=design

1.) Displacement of psychic energy

2.) Regard for representability (which employs displacement)

3.) Condensation

4.) Splitting (often in the service of representability)

represents multiple societire chains--happens more in dreams

The process by which images characterized by a common affect are grouped so as to form a single composite or a new image.

one individual is split into several

*mother can be represented by multiple things

"Charge that a theory/way of thinking priviges the word"

1.) takes story as an illustration, looks for a fixed truth, just uses it as an illustration for his existing way of reading

2.) looks at content but not narrative form, privilleges "what" over the "how"

3.) Poor formalism-result when trying to read for "truth"-- uses story to look for a singular truth

"Root Cellar"

attribution of human form or character

ex.) Groin of the doorway

1. that every expressive act is embedded in a network of material practices

2. that every act of unmasking, critique, and opposition uses the tools it condemns and risks falling prey to the practice it exposes;

3. that literary and non-literary “texts” circulate inseparably;

4. that no discourse, imaginative or archival, gives access to unchanging truths nor [sic] expresses inalterable human nature"  (The New Historicism, ed. Veeser, xi)

“[T]his field is made up of the totality of all effective statements (whether spoken or written), in their dispersion as events and in the occurrence which is proper to them. Before approaching…a science, or novels, or political speeches, or the oeuvre of an author, or even a single book, the material with which one is dealing is, in its raw, neutral state, a population of events in the space of discourse in general.”

     Language        Discourse    [To-greet-ness]

    -----------------    -------------      -----------  

     Speech            Speech act   "Hi!"

Daseiin= German for existence

Sein=being

Heidegger: Being and Time=Sein & Zeit

onomatopoeia

*Detective

*Western

*Romance

*Horror

*Sci-Fi

Past returns to present

Architechture

Supernatrual