Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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Saussurean

Language is Barthes's theme from beginning to end, and in particular the Saussurean insight that the sign is always a matter of historical and cultural convention.

—p.135 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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subsumption

the task of the critic is to subsume them into an atemporal frame of explanation

on the distinct units that compose the structure of narrative

—p.135 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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aporia

deconstruction shows this by fastening on the 'symptomatic' points, the aporia or impasses of meaning

—p.133 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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teleological

'Teleology', thinking of life, language and history in terms of its orientation to a telos or end, is a way of ordering and ranking meanings in a hierarchy of significance, creating a pecking order among them in the light of an ultimate purpose.

—p.131 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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pallid

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second-hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at once remove from my consciousness

beautiful

—p.130 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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