Is deconstruction a legitimate method of literary criticism?
>>7744349
No. State and consider the antithesis, stop there.
>deconstruction
>legitimate for anything
>>7744349
yea actually
>>7744349
not if you'e deconstructing Gene Wolfe.
>>7744349
how does one deconstruct a text?
red pill me on deconstruction please.
It's not a methodology; there isn't some schema that renders allows you to explicitly render the internal instabilities of a textual field. It's a form of engagement, a kind of conversation with a text.
kind of, not really
>>7745030
is right
>>7744349
isnt like the majority of literary criticism deconstructionist?
>>7745034
No.
IF THERE IS NOTHING OUTSIDE OF THE TEXT, HOW CAN ONE BRING DECONSTRUCTIONIST THEORY TO A TEXT?
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>>7745034
The majority of freshman English majors who want to be hot shit in class spout deconstructionism if that's what you mean
>dude, the death of the author lmao