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On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism

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In this article, the authors discuss readers and reading and deconstructive critical criticism. But their focus is on the reader and reading as a woman, and not on the critic.
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Preface to New Edition. Preface to First Edition Introduction Chapter 1: Readers and Reading 1. New Fortunes 2. Reading as a Woman 3. Stories of Reading Chapter 2: Deconstruction 1. Writing and Logocentrism 2. Meaning and Iterability 3. Grafts and Graft 4. Institutions and Inversions 5. Critical Consequences Chapter 3: Deconstructive Criticism Bibliography. Index

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Dialogism and interpretation: reading Papadiamantis' A Dream Among the Waters

TL;DR: In the early 1960s, Sontag's attack on interpretation and her dramatic appeal for an "erotics of art" in place of a hermeneutics.
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Reconstructing Narcissus: Vision and Voice in Calderón's Eco y Narciso

TL;DR: The admonition "Guardale de ver y oir" from the prophecy regarding Narciso's destiny in Eco y Narciso as discussed by the authors provides the key to the play's apparent enigma as well as Calderon's aesthetic approach, and the former is inseparable from the latter.
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Nostromo and anecdotal history

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The problem of significance: revisiting aspects of Laban’s discussions of the significance of movement and dance from a twenty-first century perspective

Jane Carr
TL;DR: This paper revisited Laban's effort theory to suggest how his work might provide the means to develop a sensitivity to how different ways of being in the world are manifested, and perhaps even negotiated, in performance.