Word: reade
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...Romain (played by French hearthrob Bernard Giraudeau). The premise, not a plot but a torturously enacted idea for one, is a humourous example of self-conscious Freudiana: at the beginning of the film, Chris saves an eight-year-old boy from the deadly clutches of a field of jellyfish--read vagina--and in the end pushes superstud Giraudeau into the deadly metaphor...
...irreverent era of Deconstruction, however, one has the book searched as a text for ideological weapons, the author pronounced DOA, and "meaning" transformed into a convenient black hole for the free play of personal metaphors. The game of literariness is no longer played according to what you read, but to how you raise the questions...
...reflection upon Nietzschean critic and philosopher Paul de Man's tendency to regard "subjectivity itself as a rhetorical effect rather than a cause" observes that we become what we choose to read through the filtering composite "differences" of our individual experience. Johnson proposes that the politically correct reading lies in that which "encounters and propagates the surprise of otherness." The search for this "otherness" becomes the goal of interpretation...
JOHNSON'S OWN feminist revisions of deconstructionism, meanwhile, take up where deMan left off in trying to rethink the implications of literary history for hermeneutics. Nowhere is this radical project illustrated better than in the humorous and ingenious, "My Monster/My Self", in which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is read as an autobiographical confession of maternal rejection. The literary monster is analyzed as product of "a single parent household," the unwanted brainchild of a mad (pro)creator, who in childhood was abandoned by her own mother...
...concluded that "the relationship among Rotary Club members is not the kind of intimate or private relation that warrants constitutional protection." About 30 states have laws similar to California's. The Justices said other organizations will be considered on a case-by-case basis, but some thought they could read the writing on the clubhouse wall for such venerable male bastions as the Kiwanis and the Lions. "The Wednesday night men's poker club may still be safe," said Rotary International President-elect Charles Keller, "but I don't know what else...