Rezeptionsästhetic is a German word meaning "receptive aesthetics". Related: Reception theory
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Rhematic Sign, Rheme
Rhematic Sign or Rheme is a term coined by Charles Peirce to denote a specific type of sign. A sign that has as its interpretant a quality ability (CP 2.250). Peirce distinguishes the trichotomy rheme, dicent, and argument by relating the sign to the nature of its...
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is a term used in antiquity to denote the literary art of persuasion, and in modern semiotics - to persuade by semiotic means. One of the main activities of classical rhetoric is the identification and analysis of many different tropes (Rhetoric Figure).
Rhetoric Figure
A figure of speech, trope.
Russian Formalism
Russian formalism is a modern doctrine in literary theory and analysis that emphasizes the autonomy of the work of art and the literary text. The movement was founded in Russia around 1915 but was condemned by Stalin as a form of bourgeois decadence. Viktor Shklovsky,...
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Fetish, Fetishizing
The most common understanding of the word Fetish is related to people's sexual desires and peculiarities. This meaning we owe to nonother but Sigmund Freud. While studying human sexuality, Freud found out that there are people that can only be aroused by specific...
Sign System
Sign system is a key concept in semiotics. It is used to refer to any system of signs and relations between signs. For example, the term language is frequently used as a synonym of a sign system. But, as the term language carries certain connotations of human...
Abduction
A term used by Charles Peirce to denote the process of inquiry in which a hypothesis is formed or generated; The result of such a process - the conclusion reached or the assumed guess, respectively, is called retroduction and hypothesis. The word "abduction" has more...
Abject
A term used by Julia Kristeva to mean something that confuses violates or undermines some established order or stable position. It has this effect because it is in the middle of what we normally consider to be absolute oppositions (eg life/death, human/machine). Many...
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