There are several things wrong with this contention, although I do not myself believe that "theory" of the kind Brooks discusses (he is reviewing a book centered mostly on figures like Foucault and Derrida, the "poststructuralists") was itself necessarily a bad thing for literary study. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Semantic drift and context can quite easily change the meaning of a printed word (Historians figured this out before the poststructuralists did). ❋ Unknown (2009)
It also seems to be what poststructuralists are getting at when they rant about the death of the author: what they mean is the total absorption of the writer's ego into the act of writing from which vantage point the whole sense of individual identity can be seen to be an illusion (of language). close window ❋ Unknown (2007)
We live at a time when art is enlisted in all manner of extra-artistic projects, from gender politics to the grim leftism of neo-Marxists, poststructuralists, and all the other exotic fauna who congregate around the art world and the academy. ❋ Frank Wilson (2008)
Ironically, the word ˜trope™ is to be heard correctly these days mainly from the lips of the dreaded poststructuralists. ❋ Bacon, John (2008)
Hermeneutics, structuralists, and poststructuralists tried to find the answer and are still seeking it. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
That leaves one wondering of what those poststructuralists were supplementing. ❋ Enowning (2007)
And this was the loftily regressive situation from which the French poststructuralists embarked. ❋ Enowning (2007)
For example, consider this particular morsel:During the 1960s the poststructuralists sought to supplement Marx with more radical critiques of “civilization” set forth by Nietzsche and Heidegger. ❋ Enowning (2007)
If his fiction has any speculative content at all, it's purely in the metafictional games that he picked up from Umberto Eco and the poststructuralists some of which can be seen peeking through the cracks in the Neveryona books. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2007)
With his emphasis on consciousness, subjectivity, freedom, responsibility and the self, his commitment to Marxist categories and dialectical thinking, especially in the second part of his career, and his quasi Enlightenment humanism, Sartre seemed to personify everything that structuralists and poststructuralists like Foucault opposed. ❋ Flynn, Thomas (2004)
African American feminists are less sanguine than poststructuralists about the felicitous social impact of playful deviations from norms and the laughter they may prompt (Williams 1991; Crenshaw 1993). ❋ Meyers, Diana (2004)
Critical race theorists and poststructuralists have been particularly vocal about this failure to come to grips with the diversity of gender, and they have offered accounts of the self designed to accommodate difference. ❋ Meyers, Diana (2004)
It is all pushed under the rug of art history and dismissed by the formalists, structuralists, and poststructuralists as "pluralism" ❋ Unknown (2010)
Deconstructionists, like poststructuralists generally, delight in literary methods that challenge traditional logic and narrative tropes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Instead of diagrams and charts, poststructuralists inject chance and play and illogic into their writing. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But this critique of certain rhetorics of truth is actually only a tiny epiphenomelal effect of what real poststructuralists do. ❋ Unknown (2009)
