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PoststructuralismA school of thought that responded negatively to structuralism’s insistence on frameworks and structures as access points to “truth.” Poststructuralism, like deconstruction, emphasized the instability [..]
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PoststructuralismA postmodern approach to literary criticism, and other disciplines, growing out of structuralism. Like structuralism, it questions the relationship between language and reality, and it sees ‘reality’ [..]
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Poststructuralismnoun. a broad intellectual movement which grew from French structuralism in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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PoststructuralismA type of analysis. Unlike structuralism which assumes a close relationship between the signifier and the signified, poststructuralism assumes that these are disconnected and in a continual state of f [..]
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PoststructuralismA misleading term. What is the problem at the basis of the disputes and confusions? And, what is at stake? Clearly it is meant to mark a break with structuralism. It is worth starting with the origina [..]
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Poststructuralismrelated to postmodernism but focused on rejecting the idea that social systems have fixed underlying structures that determine their meaning. In literature, it stresses that texts have multiple meanin [..]
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