LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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No fixed, stable meaning is possible.
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Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning.
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Literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -D. literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change.
Detailed explanation-2: -Deconstruction denotes the pursuing of the meaning of a text to the point of exposing the supposed contradictions and internal oppositions upon which it is founded-supposedly showing that those foundations are irreducibly complex, unstable, or impossible.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main point of Derrida’s theory of deconstruction is to show that the meaning of a work is unstable and could have multiple or alternative meanings, so the meaning could easily be the center as it could be marginal.
Detailed explanation-4: -The most important theorist of “Deconstruction, ” Jacques Derrida, has asserted, “There is no getting outside text, ” indicating a kind of free play of signification in which no fixed, stable meaning is possible.
Detailed explanation-5: -Starting from an Heideggerian point of view, Derrida argues that metaphysics affects the whole of philosophy from Plato onwards. Metaphysics creates dualistic oppositions and installs a hierarchy that unfortunately privileges one term of each dichotomy (presence before absence, speech before writing, and so on).