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deconstruction
[f. de- + construction.]
a. The action of undoing the construction of a thing.
1882McCarthy in 19th Cent. 859 A reform the beginnings of which must be a work of deconstruction.
b. Philos. and Lit. Theory. A strategy of critical analysis associated with the French philosopher Jacques Derrida (b. 1930), directed towards exposing unquestioned metaphysical assumptions and internal contradictions in philosophical and literary language. Also transf.
1973D. B. Allison tr. Derrida's Speech & Phenomena vi. 74 The prerogative of being cannot withstand the deconstruction of the word. 1973Matias & Willemen tr. M. Cegarra in Screen Spring/Summer 130 A radical reading of the texts/films, a turning back upon theories and types of criticism, effecting deconstructions, ruptures, deletions and renewals. 1976G. C. Spivak in J. Derrida Of Grammatology p. lxxvii, To locate the promising marginal text, to disclose the undecidable moment, to pry it loose with the positive lever of the signifier; to reverse the resident hierarchy, only to displace it; to dismantle in order to reconstitute what is always already inscribed. Deconstruction in a nutshell. 1979London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 2/4 We are not in favour of the current fashion for the ‘deconstruction’ of literary texts, for the elimination of the author from his work. 1982Encounter May 87/1 The strength of these critiques is that they offer alternative constructions as well as critical deconstructions of language. 1983N. & Q. Dec. 549/2 Boucher, Lemoyne, Natoire, discard space as it was created by Masaccio and their work is a ‘deconstruction’ of quattrocento achievement.
Hence deconˈstructionism, the theory or practice of deconstruction (sense b); deconˈstructionist a. and n., (characteristic of) an adherent or practitioner of deconstructionism.
1980R. M. Adams in Michaels & Ricks State of Lang. 584 The coincidence of vulgar with erudite deconstructionism is a circumstance worth remarking. 1982N. & Q. June 193/2 To see in this poem a ‘structureless habit of proceeding’ is too determinedly deconstructionist. 1983N. & Q. June 286/2 In 1979 he rather recommended J. Hillis Miller's Yale deconstructionism. 1983D. Lodge in Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Nov. 1237/2 ‘Bartleby’ is indeed the sort of story that makes deconstructionists' mouths water, an astonishingly early assault on the conventions and assumptions of the ‘classic realist text’. 1984Listener 15 Mar. 16/2 This follows, as the deconstructionists never tire of telling us, ‘from the systematic and collective nature of language and literary convention’. |