Cannibals clamoring in hordes throughout Ontario, snapping necks with confused slackened jaws, repeating short strings of language that drip off their rotting lips as slowly as the congealed blood of their victims. A crazed man in a car with a crying child, a stroke victim, a news broadcaster, a community, a province entirely helpless as the bizarre zombie-manufacturing AMPS virus - Acquired Metastructural Pediculosis - infects the signifiers of its victims and spreads through comprehension of the signified, wedging itself snugly into that neat pre-lingual gap. Catastrophe. Apocalypse. Language zombies. A semiotic virus. What on Earth could be more allegorical? Here ...Read More
Richard Rorty Needs a Hug
The Slandering of Linda Hutcheon: Language Zombies. A Semiotic Virus. What could be more Allegorical Autobiographical?
- Written by Karen Correia Da Silva.
- Published October 2009.
- Filed under Literature and Theory, Richard Rorty Needs a Hug.
- Tagged as The Slandering of Linda Hutcheon.
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