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Ericka Koehler – Remember this Writer’s Quote
«If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer’s life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end,…
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Deconstruction by Ericka Koehler
“Deconstruction involves the close reading of texts in order to demonstrate that any given text has irreconcilably contradictory meanings, rather than being a unified, logical whole (Mambrol, 2016).” In the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Purloined Letter,” we can apply a Deconstructivist analysis and observe that binaries are present. In the story, a royal…
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Post-structuralism, Deconstructionism and Signified by Ericka Koehler
Post-structuralism is a movement that emerged in France as a criticism of structuralism. Some post-structuralists are Foucault, and Derrida. “Post-structuralism cuts off the signified from the signifier (“Module Three Overview,” 2021).” Now, let’s talk about deconstructionism. According to Jacques Derrida “We can never truly know the definition of anything because we can never really say…
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Ericka Koehler – Remember this Writer’s Quote
“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.” ~Heenashree Khandelwal
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Accents by Ericka Koehler
One of the written pieces that I chose to analyze is “Cat in the Rain.” This short tale was written by Ernest Hemingway. It was published in 1925. Hemingway highlighted the Italian accent in this tale. He lived in many countries and mastered different languages which we can be observed when reading many of his…
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Ambiguity by Ericka Koehler
Ambiguity is a word or statement that has more than one meaning. If a phrase is ambiguous, it means multiple things (“Ambiguity,” 2021). There are different types of ambiguity like lexical and syntactic ambiguity. Lexical ambiguity is a word that has more than a meaning and syntactic ambiguity is a clause or phrase that has…
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Words by Ericka Koehler
When thinking of what words to choose, I didn’t have a special like or dislike for any word until this last year. The point arrived that I was tired and overwhelmed from hearing the words “virus,” “sick,” “contagious,” “death,” “quarantine,” “disinfecting,” “mask,” “social distancing,” “stay home,” “coronavirus,” and “pandemic,” every single day. Those words became…
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Ya no queda nada by Ericka Koehler
Solo soy un sueño Soy, Un eterno caminar No me queda nada No me queda nada En este sendero Que me quema el alma Ya no queda nada Ya no queda nada Solo soy un sueño Soy, Un eterno caminar No me queda nada No me queda nada Sin ti…
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Writers by Ericka Koehler
Writers. Weird Creatures. They can love you, hate you, destroy you or simply immortalize you in an article or book. Their mood changes according to the weather or any event. But, what will not change is the intensity of how they write. Some are very social and others are too antisocial. And, they observe you…
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