Literary Theory and Research: Deconstruction
For researching literary topics.
Key Individuals
Jacques Derrida
Paul de Man
Geoffrey Hartman
J. Hillis Miller
Harold Bloom
Books in the Library
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Derrida: a critical reader by
Call Number: B2430.D484 D477 1992ISBN: 063116121X
Deconstructionist argue that every text contains within it some ingredient undermining its purported system of meaning. The structure that seems to hold the text together is unstable because it depends on the conclusions of a particular ideology. The practice of finding the point at which the text falls apart because of these internal inconsistencies is called deconstruction.
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The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America by
Call Number: PN98.D43 Y34 1983ISBN: 0816612064 -
From the new criticism to deconstruction : the reception of structualism and post-structualism byISBN: 0252060024