“Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).” WorldLiteratureLanguageImpossibleFiguresAdventureInfiniteNotionRepeatsFiniteMimesis Book:Roland Barthes Source: Roland Barthes
“Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure.” UseEarthUsedFoundLanguageFunEasyPleasureLaughingAdventureTenOptimisticOnlineThinkerProfileDown To EarthOutgoingLaid BackPositive OptimisticEasy Going Author:Amy Webb
“I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.” IfsThinkingKnowsI CanFilmLanguagePrinciplesMediaHavensChangedAdventureExcitingDecadesExploringNew Media Author:Ang Lee
“I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity and instability of meaning partly out of a sense of adventure, to see where that takes me and partly in a whistling past the graveyard kind of way because, of course, sensing stable meaning fall away can be scary.” ThinkingWritingKindMeanDifferentSometimesPastFallLanguageAdventureListeningScaryTensionGraveyardMultiplicityInstability Author:Rae Armantrout
“To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.” WorldSpiritualLanguageJourneyAdventureDiscoveryNew World Author:Ernst Cassirer
“Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve wracking, provocative: she combines Angela Carter's beautiful style with Patricia Highsmith's malevolent atmospheres. Smyth shatters clichs and dismisses mere sociology. She knows that pleasure is besieged by terror. She tells us what we don't want to know, but need to know. Smyth's writing disturbs us, enrichingly, because truth can never be at peace with language.” KnowsWantNeedsWritingStoriesBeautifulLanguagePleasureStyleAdventureMoralityUniqueMereTerrorAtmosphereSomething NewNervesSociologyCarterProvocativeVisceralAngela Author:George Elliott Clarke
“Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.” IfsKindStillsImportantFactsStoriesHomeRememberLanguageNovelAdventureNewsMusic IsMemoirMelodyMemosNews StoriesMeanings Of Words Author:Constance Hale