In Gogol’s story The Overcoat, there are two significant scenes which may be considered as repetition of structure. The first…
Zelig! Foucault? A Review
Chameleon cured by woman doctor! wrote the papers right before Zelig was gifted with the symbolic keys of New York…
Notes on French New Wave
French New-Wave is a cinematic movement from late 50’s to late 60’s and it follows Italian neo-realism. This cinematic movement…
Concept of Enlightenment – Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer
_ Concept of Enlightenment is an introductory chapter in Adorno and Horkheimer’s book, Dialectic of Enlightenment, in which they try…
Poe’s "Purloined Letter" and Lacanian Psychoanalytical Criticism – 3
Continued… Third Scene: Where Minister is distracted of the noise that came from outside while Dupin exchanges the letter. Lacan…
Poe’s “Purloined Letter” and Lacanian Psychoanalytical Criticism – 2
Continued… _ The letter in “Purloined Letter” by way of its movements, links, connects positions of people in different ways…
Poe’s "Purloined Letter" and Lacanian Psychoanalytical Criticism – 1
Before Jacques Lacan has proposed psychoanalytical literary criticism on Poe’s well known story Purloined Letter, already established classical-Freudian psychoanalytical approach…
On Foucault
I’ve recently finished reading Foucault’s History of Sexuality in which he proposes impressive dimensions of thinking on relations between sexuality,…
On Bakhtin’s "Carnival" and "Grotesque"
Mikhail Bakhtin begins his work, Rabelais and His World with an introductory essay. For him, Rabelais is the most difficult…
Gilles Deleuze, "Cinema"
Today I’ll write about Gilles Deleuze’s ideas on Italian neo-realism, and cinema in general. Deleuze’s theories on cinema which have…
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