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A deconstructive close reading is similar in practice, but instead, we want to emphasize the instability of meaning and the idea that texts contain contradictions. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to perform a close reading of a text using deconstruction as your critical method: 1. Choose a Text: Select a text that you want to analyze ...
Mar 22, 2016 · Deconstruction involves the close reading of texts in order to demonstrate that any given text has irreconcilably contradictory meanings, rather than being a unified, logical whole. As J. Hillis Miller, the preeminent American deconstructionist, has explained in an essay entitled Stevens’ Rock and Criticism as Cure (1976), “Deconstruction ...
Mar 17, 2016 · Instead, close reading focuses on the formal aspects or the verbal/linguistic elements of a text such as figures of speech, images, symbols, interaction between words, rhythm and metaphor. The form of the work is said to be a “structure of meanings”, in which an organic unity is achieved by the play and counterplay of “thematic imagery” and “symbolic action”.
Sep 6, 2023 · From this close reading, one can draw connections between the text and larger systems glimpsed within it. Derrida’s line “there is nothing outside of the text” is often taken out of context to accuse deconstruction of reading texts in isolation ( Of Grammatology , 1967, [2016]).
Apr 24, 2024 · Here, close reading is identified through three methodological steps: establishing the text’s readability and the purpose of reading it, exploring the text, and interpreting the text. The final part offers a close reading of a collection of Norwegian eighteenth-century manuscripts.
Jan 1, 2014 · A deconstructive reading is a reading with analyses the specificity of a text's critical difference from itself " (qt. in Cuddon 1991: 210). ... the binary between ‘close readings’ and ...
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137307033. Currie’s is in part a highly self-conscious retrospective intellectual history of the emergence of literary deconstruction in the United States, focusing equally on Derrida and de Man. It includes discussions of key texts as well as key concepts. Though perhaps challenging for the complete beginner, it both ...
