00275--TERRY (TERRENCE FRANCIS) EAGLETON and his works

TERRY (TERRENCE FRANCIS) EAGLETON
(1943– )

1.The New Left Church: Studies in Literature, Politics and Theology 2.Shakespeare and Society 3.The Body as Language 4.Exiles and Émigrés: Studies in Modern Literature 5.Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës 6.Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory 7.Marxism and Literary Criticism 8.Walter Benjamin, or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism 9.The Rape of Clarissa 10.Literary Theory: An Introduction 11.The Function of Criticism: From The Spectator to Poststructuralism 12.Against the Grain: Selected Essays 13.William Shakespeare 14.The Ideology of the Aesthetic 15.The Significance of Theory 16.Ideology: An Introduction 17.Heathcliff and the Great Hunger 18.The Illusions of Postmodernism 19.Marx and Freedom 20.Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture 21.The Idea of Culture 22.The Gatekeeper: A Memoir 23.Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zˇ izˇek and Others 24.Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zˇ izˇek and Others

00274-- 10 BEST QUOTES BY LACAN

1. Since Freud, the centre of man is not where we thought it  was; one has to go on from there.

2. The unconscious is structured like a language.

3. Desire is always what is inscribed as a repercussion of the articulation of language at the level of the Other.

4. For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

5. The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

6. What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

7. What is realised in my history is neither the past definite as what was, since it is no more, nor even the perfect as what has been in what I am, but the future anterior as what I will have been, given what I am in the process of becoming.

8.  There is no such a thing as Woman.

9. Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

10. What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

00273--JACQUES DERRIDA and his works

JACQUES DERRIDA (1930–2004)

1. Edmund Husserl’s Origin of Geometry: An Introduction 2. Of Grammatology 3. Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs 4. Writing and Difference 5. Dissemination 6. Margins of Philosophy 7. Positions 8. The Archaeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac 9. Glas 10. The Truth in Painting 11. Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles 12. The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond 13. Signéponge 14. Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question 15. Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money 16. The Other Heading: Reflections of Today’s Europe 17. Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International 18. The Gift of Death

00272--PAUL (ADOLPH MICHEL) DE MAN and his works

PAUL (ADOLPH MICHEL) DE MAN (1919–1983)

1. Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism 2. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust 3. The Rhetoric of Romanticism 4. The Resistance to Theory 5. Aesthetic Ideology 6. Wartime Journalism, 1939–1943

00271--GILLES DELEUZE AND PIERRE FÉLIX GUATTARI ; their works

GILLES DELEUZE (1925–1995)  AND PIERRE FÉLIX GUATTARI (1930–1992)

Major works by Deleuze and Guattari 1. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia  2. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature 3. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia  Major works by Deleuze 1. Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume’s Theory of Human Nature 2. Nietzsche and Philosophy 3. Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties  4. Proust and Signs  5. Bergsonism 6. Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza 7. Difference and Repetition 8. The Logic of Sense 9. Dialogues  10. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation  11. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy  12. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image  13. Cinema 2: The Time-Image 14. Foucault  15. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque 16. Essays Critical and Clinical Major works by Guattari 1. Psychanalyse et transversalite 2. Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics 3. L’Inconscient machinique: Essais de schizo-analyse 4. Communists Like Us: New Spaces of Liberty, New Lines of Alliance  5. Cartographies schizoanalytiques 6.Chaosophy

00270--SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR and her works

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908–1986) SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

She Came to Stay  Pyrrhus et Cineas  Blood of Others  Who Shall Die  All Men are Mortal  Ethics of Ambiguity The Second Sex  Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter  Prime of Life  Force of Circumstance A Very Easy Death  The Coming of Age  All Said and Done Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre Lettres au Castor

00269--HAROLD BLOOM and his works

HAROLD BLOOM (1930– )

1. Shelley’s Mythmaking  2. The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry. 3. Blake’s Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument  4. Yeats  5. The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition 6. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry  7. A Map of Misreading 8. Kabbalah and Criticism  9. Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens 10. Figures of Capable Imagination  11. Wallace Stevens: The Poems of our Climate  12. Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism 13.The Breaking of the Vessels 14.The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages 15. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human 16. Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

00268--HOMI K. BHABHA and his works

HOMI K. BHABHA (1949– )

Nation and Narration  The Location of Culture Anish Kapoor

00267--WALTER BENJAMIN and his works

WALTER BENJAMIN (1892–1940)

Illuminations  The Origin of Tragic Drama  One-Way Street and Other Writings The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin: 1910–1940  The Arcades Project

00266--ROLAND BARTHES and His Works

ROLAND BARTHES (1915–1980)

Writing Degree Zero  Michelet  Mythologies  Critical Essays  Elements of Semiology  Criticism and Truth  The Fashion System  Empire of Signs  Sade, Fourier, Loyola  The Pleasure of the Text  Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes  A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments  Image, Music, Text Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography  The Grain of the Voice: Interviews1962–1980 The Rustle of Language

00265--Mikhail Bakhtin and his works

MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH BAKHTIN (1895–1975)

1.  Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics 2.  Rabelais and His World  3.  The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin   4.  Speech Genres and Other Late Essays  5.  Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by M.M. Bakhtin

00264--[DOUBLE] Willing suspension of disbelief in THE BIG BANG THEORY

[DOUBLE] Willing suspension of disbelief in THE BIG BANG THEORY

Willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge who suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative. [Wikipedia]

In simple words we keep aside our reason and enjoy the art or literature. Where reason kills the amusement or thrill or joy, the willing suspension of disbelief prepares the ground for harmony with the artist or writer. That ( willing suspension of disbelief) is a small price we pay for being subjected to a great experience.

Sheldon is a collection of strange behaviours. To enjoy the work of art, namely Sheldon, the audience practices the attitude which Coleridge called as Willing suspension of disbelief.

When [S07E06] Sheldon snatches the cookie from Leaonard and says, “Now give me that cookie I discovered an element”, we need to have a double willing suspension of disbelief. Because we had already practiced this attitude with Sheldon's antipathy for his food being touched by others.

We all very well remember the incident in which Sheldon throws away the food just because Penny has touched it. Now will such a person take someone else's cookie even if it is to show off the importance he gained after he made a great discovery? 

We are OK with Sheldon's that habit (thanks to our capacity to suspend disbelief) but now he behaves the opposite as he snatches a cookie from Leonard. That too is OK. Again thanks to our capacity to suspend disbelief.

We watch TBBT to laugh. Therefore we keep aside our reasoning and laugh when Sheldon says,“Now give me that cookie I discovered an element”. But here we are suspending our disbelief for the second time. I would like to call it DOUBLE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF.

However “reason” is the substratum. TBBT had to introduce a new character named Lucy to make Raj to talk in front of women without the help of alcohol. Raj's cure is made possible without the willing suspension of disbelief from the part of the audience.

I LOVE THE BIG BANG THEORY!!!!

00263--SINGULAR-PLURAL [ENGLISH GRAMMAR]

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bureau	bureaux
milieu	milieux
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helix	helixices
radix	radixices
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graffito	graffiti
ripieno	ripieni
maestro	maestri
virtuoso	virtuosi
criterion	criteria
parhelion	parhelia
phenomenon	phenomena
Chassis (s=silent)	Chassis (s is pronounced as z)
Corps (s=silent)	Corps (s is pronounced as z)
stratum	strata
speculum	specula
spectrum	spectra
minimum	minima
maximum	maxima
epithalamium	epithalamia
datum	data
curriculum	curricula
crematorium	crematoria
compendium	compendia
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cactus	cacti
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stimulus	stimuli