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meaning is always deferred.  \n• Rejection of authorial authority: The author’s intended meaning is no longer central (Barthes) .  \n• Textual openness: All texts contain contradictions and subvert their own claims.  \n• Reader’s role is central in interpreting meaning.  \n• Power and ideology shape all discourse (Foucault) .  \n• Critique of meta-narratives and universal truths.  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nJacques Derrida  \nDeconstruction  \n• Deconstruction resists fixed definitions; it is not a method but a way of reading, thinking, and questioning meaning.  \n• Shows how texts undermine their own authority and resist fixed meanings.  \n• Example: A legal document claiming fairness may carry language that implies bias.  \nDifférance  \n• It refers to the fact that meaning cannot be regarded as fixed or static, but is constantly evolving.  \n• It arises from the constant process of negotiation between competing concepts.  \n• Example: The word “fish” evokes different images (goldfish, shark, trout) depending on context and prior experiences.  \nThere is nothing outside-the-text  \n• Meaning does not exist beyond language/writing; reality is constructed through discourse.  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nPaul de Man  \nUndecidability:  \n• It highlights the inherent instability and indeterminacy of meaning in language and texts.  \nRhetorical Reading:  \n• It focuses on how rhetorical devices and figures of speech shape meaning and create interpretive challenges.  \nBlindness and Insight (Essay, 1971)  \n• It examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism.  \n• De Man argues that every act of critical interpretation involves blindness; a failure to see how the text contradicts the insight the critic offers.  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nJ. Hillis Miller  \n• Rejects fixed/univocal meaning:  \nThere is no \"correct\" reading of a text, all readings are equally valid or invalid.  \n• Metaphor of parasite and host:  \nA deconstructive reading is not a parasite, but a natural part of interpretation. Words like “host” and “parasite” carry contradictory meanings themselves.  \n• Language is metaphorical:  \nMeaning is always unstable, figurative, and rhetorical, not direct or singular.  \n• Deconstruction = endless reading:  \nTexts generate endless sequences of meanings. Like a chain, no first or last link exists.  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH  \nThinker  \nJacques Derrida  \nMichel Foucault  \nRoland Barthes  \nPaul de Man  \nJ. Hillis Miller  \nSeminal Work(s)  \nOf Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), Dissemination (1972) The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), Discipline and Punish (1975), The History of Sexuality (1976) The Death of the Author (1967), S/Z (1970),  \nMythologies (1957)  \nBlindness and Insight (1971), Allegories of Reading  \n(1979)  \nThe Critic as Host (1977), Fiction and Repetition  \n(1982)  \nDAK SH ITA SINGH","cbCaifTYOnudKZzv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifTYOnudKZzv","pdf",307706,"English","# Post Structuralism\n## Core ideas and central concern\n## Key features\n## Derrida: Deconstruction and related concepts\n## Paul de Man: undecidability and rhetorical reading\n## J. Hillis Miller: readings, metaphor, and endlessness\n## Thinkers and seminal works","[{\"question\":\"What is the central concern of post-structuralism?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on how language, power, and cultural context shape meaning, and how meanings always shift due to language’s unstable nature.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the key features of post-structuralism listed in the notes?\",\"answer\":\"The notes highlight unstable language, the infinite play of signifiers, rejection of authorial authority, textual openness through contradictions, and the central role of the reader. They also stress that power and ideology shape discourse.\"},{\"question\":\"How does deconstruction challenge fixed definitions and meanings?\",\"answer\":\"Deconstruction resists fixed meanings and shows how texts undermine their own authority. 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