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Pynchon's Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text.

Contemporary Literature

| June 22, 1994 | Chambers, Judith | COPYRIGHT 1994 University of Wisconsin Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The phenomenon of applied poststructuralist criticism is at best a slippery concept. On the one hand, the critic invariably acknowledges an author's exercise of deconstruction - how the author exposes the logocentricity of some positivist or humanist premise based on the privileging of such positions as presence, writing, and visualization over absence, speech, and phantasm. In this context the critic reveals the author's strategy to destabilize, to invert the binary terms in order to displace or remove the very possibility of metaphysical grounds for distinguishing between what is central and what is marginal. Since it is an exposition of another author's deconstruction, ...

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