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Orwell - Shooting an Elephant - A Semiotic Approach (Paperback)
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Orwell - Shooting an Elephant - A Semiotic Approach (Paperback)
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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of
Hamburg (IAA), course: Seminar II: "George Orwell, the English and
the Empire," 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English,
abstract: In this paper we will not mainly focus on an
interpretation of the plot of "Shooting an Elephant," but we will
rather explore how the elements of the text and hypertexts (such as
the narrator and the elephant as well as imperialism) are related
and set in opposition to each other within the text. We will
basically concentrate on the differences between 4 main carriers of
meaning in "Shooting an Elephant" and how these differences differ
themselves depending on their constellation to each other. For that
we will explore their contradictory as well as their contrary
relations to each other. Moreover, we will explore how the central
themes dealt with in "Shooting an Elephant" derive from these
constellations and how the text transports the ideas of imperialism
rooted in the language and especially in the narrative structure
which reinforces the idea of 'us' and 'them'. In order to
substantiate our findings, we will employ a method called the
semiotic square developed by Algirdas Greimas. It will help us to
develop the inherent and underlying organisation of this essay
through its acting elements and ordering principles. The semiotic
square is a tool originating from the text and discourse analysis
and as such it hails from structuralism and poststructuralism.
Authors such as Frederic Jameson6 have frequently used it to
determine how meaning is not only reproduced, but also transmitted
through and by a text. Especially transformations from one form of
society to another have been realised in narrative texts such as
novels or later films. The semiotic square helps to detect these
structural embeddings in the text. Consequently, the structure of
the current analysis will be as follows: First, we will give a
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