Language and art share many similar tendencies. In language, as in previous art forms, representation plays an important role. Language acts as a representation of some imagined elaborate concepts, writing as a representation of a sound phonic language, and art as a representation of some topics. Within these mediums exist elements that make Art and Language, and by extension, Writing successful. These are the signifiers. Signifiers are imperfectly constructed, evoking signs other than those intended based on frequency of use, abuse, and contextually location. They are influenced by a multitude of extratextual forces. It is from these axioms that Structuralism and, therefore, Deconstructivism take shape. Jacques Derrida introduces the errata 'différance' as a concept to explain the deferred nature of Language. He raises the idea of difference possessing two functions: as "a distinction, inequality or discernibility" that creates a non-identity between two units of language, and an "interval of spacing and temporalization" that differs an "identity" between two units of language. units (279). The latter of the two treats the spelling error as the often silent definition of difference. Différance admits a difficulty in understanding language since signifiers point to a series of other signifiers that continue to differ the essence of the signified. Viktor Shklovsky, who precedes Derrida, speaks of a defamiliarization with art: the technique of art is to make objects "unfamiliar", to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and duration of perception because the process of perception is fine aesthetic to itself and must be prolonged. Art is a way of experiencing the art of an object: the object is not important. . . (Shklov... in the center of the sheet... completely out. Take Picasso's 1937 painting La Guernica, the aesthetic goal was for the signifiers (the enlarged Cubist heads) to indicate the terror of the Spanish Civil War, an action completely extratextual. In Literature, the works of James Joyce invoke something outside of the speech 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room' of The Dubliners possess a large number of political overtones from extratextual sources, namely, the. funeral of Charles Stewart Parnell (Ivy Day), therefore, occurs with a de-familiarization between the linguistic components that evoke it. It invokes an a-formalist reading of the nature of language and art that extends to complex invocations of intertextuality. e. extratextuality appears as an unconscious connection between signs that invokes identity through a deference of meaning through a filter of pre-read forms..
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