RSSMichæl Halliday – Language Evolving: Some Systemic-Functional Reflections On The History Of Meaning
Jul 16
The Dead Heart of Australia
Jul 14
language and culture identity, intertextuality, knowledge, meaning No Comments
my research for the common implications for the title of the midnight oil song, lead me to the original book of the almost same name, by noted geologist, J.W. Gregory, who made an expedition to Lake Eyre and surrounding districts in 1901.
google books did not have a review of the book, but google did provide me with a link to a wonderful online copy courtesy of openlibrary.org.
and, they _share_
furthermore, and most interestingly, if not ironically, his account begins with a chapter which describes the originary stories of the region as told by the local aborigines, who describe creatures called the Kadimakara who used to come down from the firmament of clouds which used to be supported by three very large gum trees. when these died or were killed, the other trees in the area also began to thin, and the sky opened up completely into what they called the ‘puri wilpenina’…
our recent trip there was in the air-conditioned comfort of a 4WD, in winter.
an image for you:
The Language and Ecology Research Forum
May 25
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Terrence Deacon On His New Book ‘Incomplete Nature’
May 23
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter from Wonderfest on FORA.tv
Genre Parody used as satire
Feb 26
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A good example of what Genette might call caricature, the parodic imitation of a style with satirical intent. The satire here is not directed at the style or the genre so much as using that genre and its stylistic features to satirise a social phenomenon.
[download the full pdf version from the original publication site here]
“The word parody is currently the site of a rather onerous confusion, because it s called upon to designate at times playful distortion, at times the burlesque transposition of a text, and on other occasions the satirical imitation of a style. The main reason for this confusion is obviously the functional convergence of the three formulas, each of whch produces a comic effect, generally at the expense of the text or style being “parodied.” [24]
“I propose therefore to (re)baptise as parody the distortion of a text by means of a minimal transformation of the Chapelain décoiffé type; travesty will designate the stylistic transformation whose function is to debase, à la Virgile travesti; caricature (but no longer, as previously, parody) will designate the satirical pastiche […]; and pastiche plain and simple would refer to the imitation of a style without any satircal intent, a type illustrated by at least some pages of Proust’s “L’Affaire Lemoine”. [25]
“I am therefore claiming not to censure the abuse of the word parody (since, in effect, this is what we are dealing with) but only to point it out and – because it is impossible to clear up this lexical area effectively – at least provide its users with a conceptual tool enabling them to check and focus with greater swiftness and accuracy what it is they are (probably) thinking about when they (haphazardly) utter the word parody. [26]
“Parody does not actually subject the hypotext to a degrading stylistic treatment but only takes it as a model or template for the construction of a new text which, once produced, is not longer concerned with the model. [27]
from
Gerard Genette. 1997 [1982] Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree. Translated by Channa Newman & Claude Doubinsky. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press
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