LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the meaning of a text always relies on context.
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texts are always heterogeneous.
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any system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The point of the deconstructive analysis is to restructure, or “displace, ” the opposition, not simply to reverse it. For Derrida, the most telling and pervasive opposition is the one that treats writing as secondary to or derivative of speech.
Detailed explanation-3: -Deconstructive criticism posits an undecidability of meaning for all texts. The text has intertwined and contradictory discourses, gaps, and incoherencies, since language itself is unstable and arbitrary. The critic doesn’t undermine the text; the text already dismantles itself.
Detailed explanation-4: -Deconstruction doesn’t actually mean “demolition; ” instead it means “breaking down” or analyzing something (especially the words in a work of fiction or nonfiction) to discover its true significance, which is supposedly almost never exactly what the author intended.