Fairy Tale | Taylor Swift Scholar

Saint Stephen I just wrote you a paean: Signifier and signified in Hey Stephen

Swift, a philosopher of language, explores the relationship between a name and what it signifies by fully exploring the meaning of 'Stephen'

In Our Song, noted music theorist Taylor Swift grapples with the question “What is Music?”

Swift, a Platonic philosopher, transforms a story of infidelity into a brilliant illustration of the Socratic idea that Virtue = Knowledge.

The Basics: Taylor Swift describes a date by proclaiming over and over again that it was a fairytale. Literary Device: Epizeuxis...

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Swift’s use of ekphrasis to describe a home video elevates this domestic scene to the realm of high art.

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In White Horse, Taylor Swift negates the fairy tale tropes of Love Story. She erases the relationship and writes herself a new role.

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