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Poststructural Criticism: Language as Context
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1
In "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1917), T.S. Eliot argued that "the poet has, not a 'personality' to express, but a particular medium, which is only a medium and not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways." What is the difference between deconstructionist criticism and Eliot's "nothing outside of the text" approach to literature? In what sense is deconstructionism merely formalist criticism taken to its logical conclusion?
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Read the final paragraph of Roland Barthes' seminal poststructuralist manifesto, "The Death of the Author" (full text available online and in various anthologies of literary criticism). How does Barthes' essay affirm tenets shared by the various text-centered approaches? How would you distinguish the critical approach endorsed by Barthes from the various critical schools discussed in this book?
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