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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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Moving Beyond the Canon of Traditional Constitutional History: Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights, and the Promise of Post-Modern Historiography
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British party politics and foreign policy : the case of Zimbabwe
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In Force Without Significance: Kantian Nihilism and Agamben’s Critique of Law
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Self‐help books and the construction of reading: Readers and reading in textual representation
Kelly Coyle,Debra Grodin +1 more
TL;DR: In a reader response analysis of Women Who Love Too Much, the authors construct an account of the ways in which this text attempts to control the interpretive prerogatives of readers through a construction of reading.