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Deconstruction

Deconstruction
The author who first coined and popularized the term Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, resists efforts to define the word. While Jacques Derrida developed the literary theory in his book Of Grammatology which sparked a new age of literary criticism, the belief was actually discussed prior to that by the Yale School in the late 1960's, before Derrida published his revolutionary book. Deconstruction, which purports that readers have the ability to have an infinite chain of thought through the analysis of binary codes, evolved from a form of structuralism. Unlike structuralism, which sought the meaning of a text through its structure and not through the details, deconstruction refers to the concept of multiple interpretations throughout a text by analyzing binary oppositions. Deconstruction thus can be classified as anti-structuralism, as it largely uses binary opposition and details of specific words to analyze text. Like many of his colleagues and peers who are......


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