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Using a deconstructive approach grounded in Derrida’s ideas, the paper reads Dickinson’s poems “I’m wife,” “This is my Letter to the World,” and “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” to expose gaps, reversals, and self-subverting structures.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":15,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/a-deconstructive-reading-of-dickinsons-poetic-texts/589874/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/a-deconstructive-reading-of-dickinsons-poetic-texts/589874.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Cart","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-22","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":8},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What does deconstruction claim about language and meaning?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"Deconstruction views language as a system of signs whose oppositions, differences, and contradictions keep meaning unstable. 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Accordingly, the theory is |\n| Accepted: October 25, 2018 | operative in the sense that meanings are ultimately, unstable, and that a text, any text, contradicts, |\n| Published: December 28, 2018 | dismantles and even destroys itself. Hence, literary texts do not work as they appear tobe working. |\n| Volume: 9 Issue: 6 | They, in fact,‘subvert’ and/or ‘betray’ themselves. Literary men cannot, therefore, control their |\n| Advance access: November 2018 | works because any work, according to Derrida, the exponent of this theory, tries to defer or suppress its meaning which is ultimately shown as being unstable. Poetry is a unique act and Dickinson’s poetry reveals its gaps, inherent oppositions, and subversions. It is in the light of the |\n|  |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None | theory of deconstruction that this paper tries to show that Dickinson’s poems ‘I’m wife’,‘This |\n| Funding: None | is my Letter to the World’ and ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’ unmask their contradictions |\n|  | and enact the instability and indeterminacy of their meanings. Eventually, the newly established meanings of these pieces can hardly be sure of themselves and/or of being decidable. |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Dickinson, Derrida, |  |\n| Deconstruction, Signs, |  |\n| Binary Opposition,\u003Cbr>Indeterminacy,\u003Cbr>Subversion |  |\n\nPREPARATORY REMARKS  \nDeconstruction, as a theory, has to create new terms, a thing which explains why Derrida insists on coining new ones. Originally, Derrida borrows the word ‘deconstruction’ from the work of Martin Heidegger and starts applying it to textual reading. Derrida (1997: 158-159) asserts that there is no outside text. By this, he means that context is essential to his concept of difference (1988: 136). When working out oppositions, Derrida argues against having eventually a nihilistic stand.  \nDeconstruction does not envisage text, any text, to be distinct separate whole but as having irreconcilable and contradictory aporia of text, hence a deconstructive reading is called aporetic (Curie 80) . Miller seems to take things further by refining the reality of the text:  \nThe critical text and the literary text are each parasite and host for the other, each feeding on the other and feeding it, destroying and being destroyed by it. (249)  \nCasche’, on the other hand, argues that deconstruction refines a thoughtful “procedure” and a “marked …regularity:… deconstruction … reveals … a well ordered procedure, a step-by-step type of argumentation based on an acute awareness of…marked thoroughness and regularity”(3-4) . CritChley likes to talk of the ethical aspect of deconstruc-  \ntion. He argues “that Derrida’s deconstruction is intrinsically ethical practice” and that “deconstruction involves an openness to the other that makes it ethical in the Levinsan understanding of the term”(352) .  \nIn his book, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction, Selden briefly tries to demonstrate a Derridean method at work although he realises that such a thing is“totally un-Derridean in spirit”(89) . This is how the Derridean deconstructive critical practice works:  \nThe deconstructor begins by disclosing the hierarchically ordered, metaphysical substratum of a specific piece of discourse. The pairs of terms (soul/body, being/non-being, good/bad, content/form, truth/lies, essential/inessential, speech/writing, masculine/feminine, ","cbCaiayNde2uslsk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiayNde2uslsk","pdf",276276,"English","# Preparatory Remarks\n## Deconstructive reading method and key concepts\n# Poetry as a Unique Act","[{\"question\":\"What does deconstruction claim about language and meaning?\",\"answer\":\"Deconstruction views language as a system of signs whose oppositions, differences, and contradictions keep meaning unstable. As a result, texts unsettle themselves rather than delivering fixed sense.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper apply deconstruction to Dickinson’s poems?\",\"answer\":\"The paper argues that Dickinson’s poems reveal gaps, inherent oppositions, and subversions. 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