Bricolage: A Womans Use of Canonical Ideology :: Canonical Ideology Literature

Bricolage A Womans Use of Canonical political orientationle bricolage travail dont la technique est improvise, adapte aux materiaux, aux circonstances.1In chapter one of The Savage Mind, Claude Lev-Strauss explains bricolage as a way of understanding the coordinate of mythical thought in savage societies. The term bricoleur can be use practically, to represent a kind of craftsman though Lev-Strauss brings the interchange to an analytical level, and it is with this level that we be concerned. The bricoleurs universe of instruments is closed and the rules of his game are always to do with whatever is at hand2 so, as a craftsman, he is conservative and ecological. He nominates from within a structure in order to build out of it the materials of the bricoleur are elements which can be outlined by two criteria they have had a use.... and they can be used again either for the same purpose or for a divers(prenominal) one if they are at all diverted from their previous function.3 For much information on this chapter, The Science of the Concrete, click here. In this paper, I will examine this apprehension as it applies to certain patterns and ideas that exist in ruleical American ideology and literature in the nineteenth degree Celsius and how its double nature presents an opportunity for those marginal or other Americans. In examining this, the American writer will be considered a sort of craftsman. The concept of bricolage resonates strongly in the American literary customs that is constructed alongside the acres itself. T.S. Eliot and Octavio Paz both support its prevalence in the customs duty. They conceive of the literary canon as an ivory tower, a closed edifice... that cracks open to allow transfix only to the work of genius - by implication, to a gifted man.4 As Eliot perceives this monument as necessarily alterable, one which allows a new work to enter upon it if the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjust ed,5 Paz presents a similar, though significantly radicalized view of the constant revolt of tradition rather than its continuity.6 Pazs tradition against itself extends Eliots with the notion that what constitutes the modern tradition is the constant replacement of literary forms, as contemporary textual practices.7 However divergent, both of these theories aver on a similar concept which shapes an American literary tradition according to Lev-Strauss bricolage in order to belong to tradition...