
Literary theory 2: Structuralism, Deconstruction, and more, hooray!
The Bookening
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What's the Meaning of the Author?
Roland Bart and Stephen Greenblatt are pushing literary theory back to having something to say about the way we actually experience the world. It's always a little bit, I think, that what you begin to see with deconstruction and post-structuralism is like these guys were just having fun," he says. "For Nietzsche facts exist, but it's interpretation that gives the meaning"
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