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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.Abstract:
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. Indexread more
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Conrad, Language, and Narrative: Linguistic dystopia: The Secret Agent
TL;DR: The Secret Agent as discussed by the authors is the only written text in Conrad's entire oeuvre that has no recourse to the utopian myths of transparent communal discourse that sustained the earlier fictions, and the tone of impersonal irony that prevails in The Secret Agent is a far cry from the cosy atmosphere of ‘Youth’ or Lord Jim, where the reader automatically qualifies as an honorary listener, invited to pull up a chair with Marlow's friends and enjoy a good after-dinner yarn.
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Narrating spiritual well-being in relationship to positive psychology and religion
B. van Rooyen,R.B.I. Beukes +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, positive psychology is used as a signifier with a (his)story in which one possible reading is highlighted in this postmodern (de)constructive narrative, with measurable well-being becoming dependent on the pursuit of the postmodern, multiple-storied spiritual/religious features.
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"Raly it's give me such a turn": Responding to the Reflexive in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Stromab - Gedanken zur Hermeneutik biblischer Texte im Kontext der neueren angelsächsischen Diskussion
TL;DR: A survey of recent developments in literary criticism in the English-speaking world can be found in this paper, where it is argued that the hermeneutic character of theology remains necessary in the Christian tradition, not founded on the proposition of the linguistic nature of revelation, but on the fact that theology is the reflective human speaking about God.