Is There No Place for the Word Stability in Macbeth - Lighthouse Academy Syria - Hussam Shamma.pdf (941.63 kB)
Is There No Place for the Word Stability in Macbeth - Lighthouse Academy Syria - Hussam Shamma
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posted on 2018-06-28, 23:08 authored by Hussam Shamma, Lighthouse Academy Syria, Operator ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CENTREOperator ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CENTRE, Mustafa KayyaliMustafa KayyaliWaging war against the co-called authority and ruling power of the Western thought, which enslaved the text by one stable and fundamental meaning from the foundations of the Greek civilization until the present time, Jacques Derrida Stages his deliberate endeavor to disturb and shake the whole existence of the Western assumptions and beliefs. He clearly launched his philosophical coup against the governmental legacy of the classical concepts and ideologies at a conference in Johns Hopkins University in 1966 America, where he introduced his intricate ideas and terms through presenting his paper Structure, sign, and System (Bressler 71). No more of the ultimate being that rules and confines the way we perceive a literary work.
In nutshell, Jacques Derrida proposes an alternative approach to textual analysis, which he dubs not a school, or a theory of criticism but simply a „strategic device.‟ It is a kind of lineage steps and techniques that could be applied to a literary text, which contains Western philosophical and conceptual oppositions, in certain sequence, but not necessarily in the same order. Most importantly is to recognize the binary oppositions found in a text; for example, you may encounter the light/dark couple in the text, and, of course, lightness compared to darkness is much more preferable and appeals to our consciousness as something privileged and better than darkness. This hierarchy is inherited from the Western culture as something unassailable and exists outside language.
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