Sentence examples for cultural text from inspiring English sources

But if Flashman is a late addition to the Tom Brown cultural text, the atmosphere of casual violence that bears him along is not.

Perhaps the biggest disjuncture between the "cultural text" of Tom Brown, the one made up of all those half-remembered TV adaptations and cut-down children's versions, and the real, unvarnished thing, is Flashman.

To her, what she's producing isn't rampant consumerism on display to be emulated or mocked, or both — it's a form of social anthropology, a cultural text as worthy of analysis as any other, an art form suitable for her intellect.

I realized only in hindsight that my queering of the Sleeping Beauty narrative was an unconsciously political act, that in fact every appropriation of any cultural text is an inherently political act whether we acknowledge it or not.

Chinese literature, which traditionally prizes poetry over fiction, derives much of its emotional force from oblique allusions, drawing on a deep well of shared cultural texts, and Cha's work is no exception.

Here theorists are attempting to use the master's tools—Freud and Lacan to destroy the master's house (see Lourde 1984): dominant cultural texts are ripe for such an against-the-grain reading of orthodox psychoanalytic concepts.

Rather than having to generalize from small samples or rely on our intuition, we can study exact cultural patterns formed by millions of cultural texts.

Today people use a variety of software tools to select the content of interest to them from this massive and constantly expanding universe of cultural texts and conversations.

In June, the institute will give a presentation called "Reading the Body as Text: Cultural History Written in Bone" at the 15th International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literature at the Library of Congress in Washington.

The uproar began late last month when rumors, denied by the brothers, began ricocheting around the Internet that they had constructed an elaborate hoax à la that of Dr. Alan Sokal, the New York University physicist who published a nonsense article about quantum gravity in the cultural journal Social Text in 1994.

In particular, although every "cultural object" (a text, a work of art, a monument, and so on) has its own individual place in (historical) time and (geographical-cultural) space, it nevertheless has a trans-historical and trans-local cultural meaning that emerges precisely as it is continually and successively interpreted and reinterpreted at other such times and places.