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"Meaning is constructed (made), not dis-covered". Discuss the statement (ie. argue for or against it) using at least 3 of the following concepts: signifier/signified, paradigm/syntax, connotation/denotation, genre, intertextuality, discourse, representation, reading/writing. You may, if you choose, use Frankenstein and/or Gods and Monsters to illustrate your claims. Meaning, in terms of the cultural studies discipline, consists of the understanding in which an individual or a group of people have of a particular thing or entity, and take into account all types of different understandings regardless of its context. However, it cannot be said that this understanding of a subject is purely "dis-covered" due to the fact that it would also be considered with the possibility of having the responder incorporating his own ideals which is carried with him. This essay will delve into the idea of meaning being constructed and not dis-covered, with the analysis of the concepts of genre, intertextuality and...

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