Thursday, June 19, 2008

symptomatic reading

In literary studies, symptomatic reading is one of the most critical methods. Symptomatic reading is defined as a surface and depth model of interpreting the reading text's accurate and true meaning of what the text does and does not state. The subliminal gaps and exclusions become evident clues to the reading material's absenteeism and determination structures. The reading critic must therefore reconstruct or imagine the "other scene" for example, the time in history.
"In The Political Unconscious(1981), Jameson defines the symptom as that"whose cause is of another order of phenomenon from its effects"(26) and states that what is most "interesting in a text is what it represses(49). Interpretation"always presupposes, if not a conception of the unconscious itself."(60) Repression in terms of which it would make clearer sense to construe a latent meaning behind an obvious meaning.
The above educational topic, Symptomatic Reading and Its Discontents
On June 1, 2008, I read this article and typed it for our professor, since blogging wasn't going through yet.
(I wanted to review an article from Princeton University and to "stretch" our comprehension and learning ability to a higher level mode of thinking."
Website:http://weblamp,princeton.edu/~acla06/category/seminars/streamb/

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