Categoría: Deconstructionism
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Deconstruction by Ericka Koehler
“Deconstruction involves the close reading of texts in order to demonstrate that any given text has irreconcilably contradictory meanings, rather than being a unified, logical whole (Mambrol, 2016).” In the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Purloined Letter,” we can apply a Deconstructivist analysis and observe that binaries are present. In the story, a royal…
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Post-structuralism, Deconstructionism and Signified by Ericka Koehler
Post-structuralism is a movement that emerged in France as a criticism of structuralism. Some post-structuralists are Foucault, and Derrida. “Post-structuralism cuts off the signified from the signifier (“Module Three Overview,” 2021).” Now, let’s talk about deconstructionism. According to Jacques Derrida “We can never truly know the definition of anything because we can never really say…
Cantos by Ericka Koehler 