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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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"They practice their trades in different worlds": Concepts in Poststructuralism and Ordinary Language Philosophy
TL;DR: The capacity for understanding is the same as the capacity for misunderstanding as discussed by the authors, which is the opposite of the capacity of understanding for misunderstanding, i.e., the capacity to understand is different from understanding.
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The problem of dissemination: evidence and ideology
TL;DR: This paper recontextualises research evidence as an example of textually-based social control by drawing on two areas of theoretical literature; feminist literary theory and the sociology of scientific knowledge.
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Other reader-oriented theories
TL;DR: This paper pointed out that reader-oriented criticism is not one field but many, not a single widely trodden path but a multiplicity of crisscrossing, often divergent tracks.
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Power as Dynamic Tension and its Implications for Radical Organizational Change
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model of organizational power based on exploration of the dynamic tensions between manifest/surface versus latent/deep power and between personal versus collective power is proposed, and four paths to change are suggested including restructuring, personal action, deconstruction, and resistance.
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The myth of 9/11
TL;DR: This article examined a wide range of fictions published largely within Britain in the last fifteen years and concluded that the post-9/11 mood might more usefully be interpreted as an exacerbation of an already existing structure of feeling that responds to the banal superficiality of the postmodern condition.