Two Poles
From today’s New York Times:
From erraticimpact.com on Paul Ricoeur:
the narratologist Algirdas-Julien Greimas.
between the philosophical and religious
domains, attempting to reconcile
the two poles in his thought.”
| From today’s NYT obituary of Sol Stetin:
“Mr. Stetin, who emigrated from Poland at the age of 10 and dropped out of high school in the ninth grade, was fond of saying he got his education in the labor movement.” |
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continued:
“… it is not in isolation that the rhetorical power of such oppositions resides, but in their articulation in relation to other oppositions. In Aristotle’s Physics the four elements of earth, air, fire and water were said to be opposed in pairs. For more than two thousand years oppositional patterns based on these four elements were widely accepted as the fundamental structure underlying surface reality….
The structuralist semiotician Algirdas Greimas introduced the semiotic square (which he adapted from the ‘logical square’ of scholastic philosophy) as a means of analysing paired concepts more fully….”
— Daniel Chandler, Semiotics for Beginners
Poetry’s Bones and
Theme and Variations.
Other readings on polarity:
Log24, May 24, 2003, and
from July 26, 2003:
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Bright Star and Dark Lady “Mexico is a solar country — but it is also a black country, a dark country. This duality of Mexico has preoccupied me since I was a child.” — Octavio Paz, |
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Bright Star
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Amen. |
Dark Lady
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