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Catttt Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Flouting repression

1. Does "flouting repression" mean "a language that humiliates repression"


2. does "dangerous elisions" mean "dangerous integrations and connections"?


3. Does the last sentence of the context mean "in this cigar advertisements, instead of symbolism, it is the surrealism itself that plays the role of the carrier of forbidden subjects and dangerous integrations"?


Context:

As Martin Davidson has argued, the incorporation of Surrealism into cigarette advertising:

gave this new taboo an interesting cultural history, putting it up there with all those other interesting pleasures that we have been led to believe forced surrealists into a language outside rules and conformities in the first place, flouting repression.
At this level, it is Surrealism itself rather than any particular use of symbolism that can be seen as the primary signifier, connoting ‘forbidden subjects and dangerous elisions’.

  

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catttt 1. Does "flouting repression" mean "a language that humiliates repression" No. It means defying repression/suppression.

  • catttt 1.
  • Does "flouting repression" mean "a language that humiliates repression" No.
  • It means defying repression/suppression.
  • catttt 2.
  • does "dangerous elisions" mean "dangerous integrations and connections"?
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catttt1. Does "flouting repression" mean "a language that humiliates repression"

No. It means defying repression/suppression.

catttt2. does "dangerous elisions" mean "dangerous integrations and connections"?

It's unclear to me what it means in the given context. 'dangerous omissions' is the basic meaning.

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