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Question 1. Using a specific structuralist framework (such as the ones we examined by Frye and Scholes), how should the text be classified in terms of its genre?
Question 2. Using a specific structuralist framework (such as that of Greimas, Todo-rov, or Genette), analyze the text's narrative operations. Can you speculate about the relationship between the text's "grammar" and that of similar texts? Can you speculate about the relationship between the text's grammar and the culture from which the text emerged?
Question 3. Using Culler's theory of literary competence, what rules or codes of interpretation must be internalized in order to "make sense" of the text? Depending on the text in question, it might be necessary to identify codes in addition to those specified by Culler. (In other words, what does a given text contribute to our knowledge of literary competence?)
Question 4. What are the semiotics of a given category of cultural phenomena, or "texts," such as high school football games, television and/or magazine ads for a particular brand of perfume (or any other consumer product), or even media coverage of a historical event, such as Operation Desert Storm, an important legal case, or a presidential election campaign? In other words, analyze the nonverbal messages sent by the "texts" in question, as well as the semiotic implications of such verbal "tags" as "Desert Storm" or "White Diamonds" (a brand of perfume). What is being communicated, and how exactly is it being communicated?
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What does the work reveal about the operations
: What does the work reveal about the operations (economically, politically, socially, or psychologically) of patriarchy? How are women portrayed?
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Competitive edge on the marketplace
: While information systems has one meaning, it can be used in different ways for companies to keep a competitive edge on the marketplace.
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Explain what are the politics of specific gay
: Explain What are the politics (ideological agendas) of specific gay, lesbian, or queer works, and how are those politics revealed in, for example
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How might the work be seen as a critique of capitalism
: How might the work be seen as a critique of capitalism, imperialism, or classism? That is, in what ways does the text reveal, and invite us to condemn
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How should the text be classified in terms of genre
: Using a specific structuralist framework (such as the ones we examined by Frye and Scholes), how should the text be classified in terms of its genre?
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How does work participate in african american literary
: How does the work participate in the African American literary tradition? To what group of African American texts might we say it belongs in terms of politics
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What are some areas of communication
: How do you know that this is a weakness of yours? Is this something that has always been a shortcoming for you or has it gotten worse? Explain.
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How much understanding of the novel has been shaped
: How much do you think your understanding of the novel has been shaped by what others have said? How much do you think the meaning has been made collectively?
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What about who are allowed to connect with the text
: What about who you are allowed you to connect with the text? Do you see anything about yourself in the characters or story? Do you see something
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