UGC NET Deconstruction Theorist English Literature #english #literature #ugcnetenglish #exam

Deconstruction is a poststructuralist literary theory mainly associated with Jacques Derrida. It challenges the idea that language has fixed meaning. According to deconstruction, meanings are unstable because words depend on other words for interpretation.
Core Ideas:
No single final meaning in a text
Language is unstable and full of contradictions
Binary oppositions (speech/writing, male/female, good/evil) are questioned
Meaning is constantly deferred — called différance
Readers can discover hidden tensions and multiple interpretations in a text
Key Terms:
Différance
Binary Opposition
Logocentrism
Decentering
Trace
Instability of Meaning
Important Theorists:
Jacques Derrida
Roland Barthes
Paul de Man
J. Hillis Miller
Famous Work:
Of Grammatology
“Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”
One-Line Definition:
“Deconstruction shows that texts do not have one stable meaning; meanings keep shifting.”
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