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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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Proust and Kafka: On the Opening of Narrative Space

TL;DR: For the two authors I shall be examining in this essay-Marcel Proust and Franz Kafka-the threshold-moment can be conceived, in psychocritical terms, as a liberation from childhood anxieties as discussed by the authors.
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Introduction: A Science of Joy

Steven Winspur
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: The authors re-evaluate Riffaterre's key concepts and show their relevance to various fields within and beyond French literature, including the field of text analysis. But their focus is on the French language.
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Secret to the last: Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond

TL;DR: The multitude of opinions regarding Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond, an amalgam of Gothic, sentimental, and purpose fiction which burst forth from his pen in under two months in 1799, is broad enough to have prompted Paul Rodgers to argue that such diversity tends to cast doubt upon the merits of any reading as mentioned in this paper.