/lit/ - Literature

The meaning of the "text" is not owned by anyone including the original author.

Now go for it!

Deconstruction you say...

>>2059361
Deconstruction is when you look at a novel or poem and try to "deconstruct" all of the themes and hidden messages and ideas that the author was trying to communicate.

>>2059393
that sounds like it's just interpreting a work

it's makework bullshit you do in english class where you try to find the "hidden" meanings which always support your retarded point of view.

The communists have use it constantly to support their ideologies.

It's sorta like when ya take a text (novel (this is rare), cultural concept/idea (this is most common: examples could be the concept of 'compassion' or feminist ideology)) and do a structuralist analysis. Then, ya realize there are some areas that sorta contradict or are sorta opposed. This is a potential 'aporia'. If this strange structuralist dynamic is an aporia, it's gotta lead to a useful emendation to the text (used in broad sense as above, this is a structuralist conceit lol) and this may be rare and is way Derrida is coy about deconstruction being a 'method' or tool set, considering the methodology is pretty dang inexact.

If it is an aporia, you may be, like Judith Butler or Homi K. Bhabha, on the cusp of a new field of cultural study. Former woman developed gender studies from feminism by pointing out that their gender identity archetypes were often comprimised by sexuality. Her gender theory models gender identity more exactly as a consequence. Homi K Bhabha changed post-colonialist thought by pointing that traditional Marxist power dynamics did not always occur between colonialist and subaltern, particularly in cases where the subaltern's culture grew to dominate. Hence, hybridization was formed as a cultural and literary phenomenon.

The only example I can come up with for when deconstruction was used in a distinctly literary context was De Man's analysis of Proust (among other things) in the dynamic between metaphor and metonym (vaguelly Jacobsian thingies, if that means much). Here, he showed that both weren't necessarily discrete in literary language. Hope this helps.

Deconstruction is when you take something that has been constructed and then undo the construction. e.g. after playing with lego, you deconstruct whatever you made.

decos... tur...

>>2059425
typahs

>(text is used in broad sense as above, this is a structuralist conceit lol)

>is why Derrida is coy

>Judith butler developed g
(just realized 'former woman' kinda seems like a transsexual thing when it's just that old former/latter thing)

It's like when you think Ashley is so keeping Mary Kate down and your buddy says, no, Mary Kate is so keeping Ashley down and you're both right!

>>2059433
Except it isn't like that at all.

>>2059435

And you're right, too!

Let's keep deconstructing!

>>2059442
Stupid faggot.

So they dig up Beethoven's grave and open his casket and there he sits with some sheet music and an eraser, rubbing away like mad.

they ask him, "wat you doing/"

He says, "Decomposing, what does it look like I am doing?

>>2059433
>>2059435
>>2059442
lol'd hard

>>2059447


right again! man you can deconstruct!

Are you Foucault?

'Deconstruction' is the name given to the critical operation by which such oppositions can be partly undermined, or by which they can be shown partly to undermine each other in the process of textual meaning...Deconstruction tries to show how such oppositions, in order to hold themselves in place, are sometimes betrayed into inverting or collapsing themselves, or need to banish to the text's margins certain niggling details which can be made to return and plague them." Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction Second Edition (115-116).

Terry Eagleton's chapter "Post-Structuralism" in Literary Theory: An Introduction and Culler's chapter "Critical Consequences" in On Deconstruction...share a number of premises...Both understand deconstruction as a philosophically grounded approach that: emphasizes the problematic relationship between the linguistic signifier and the "transcendent signified" (Eagleton 131; Culler 188); challenges, and ultimately decenters, hierarchies of thought or expression based on binary oppositions that privilege one term over its ostensible opposite (Culler 213; Eagleton 132); focuses on the "marginal" terms excluded from the discourse in order to recognize the way in which the text subverts its own meaning (Culler 215;Eagleton 132-33); recognizes that all signifiers derive their meaning from "traces" of other signifiers; and concentrates on the "play of signifiers," creating a theoretically endless chain that frustrates attepts at closure." -Craig Hansen Werner, Playing the Changes (8).

>>2059393
and also all the "themes and hidden meanings" that sort of crept into it without the author even noticing.