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- Title
On the meaningfulness of transgressions.
- Authors
Mahler, Andreas
- Abstract
Without the drawing up of borders there would arguably be no meaning; without a neat distinction between what something is and what it is not, we would probably be unable to discriminate, and communicate, stable identities (or at least share the illusion of having them). If borders guarantee meaning, transgressions are apt to modify them, bringing potentially new meaning into the world. This paper first focuses on how man/woman, as the meaning-generating animal, starts, relies on, and becomes dependent on the meaning-making process, and then goes on to discuss this process as a continuous discursive (and aesthetic) negotiation as well as re-negotiation of shifting identities in what has culturally been called the 'semiosphere'.
- Subjects
TRANSGRESSION (Ethics); DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); GENDER identity; RENEGOTIATION; AESTHETICS
- Publication
AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0171-5410
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2357/AAA-2019-0001