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post-structuralism, n. Lit. Theory.|pəʊstˈstrʌktʃərəlɪz(ə)m|
Also poststructuralism.
[f. post- + structuralism n. 2. Cf. *post-structural a.]
An extension and critique of structuralism, esp. as used in critical textual analysis, which rejects structuralist claims to objectivity and comprehensiveness, typically emphasizing instead the instability and plurality of meaning, and freq. using the techniques of deconstruction to reveal unquestioned assumptions and inconsistencies in literary and philosophical language.
1977P.M.L.A. XCII. 1150/2 A Reassessment of Structuralism.. Panellists: Arthur E. Kunst, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison (post-structuralism and linguistics). 1979J. V. Harari Textual Strategies 28 We shall retain the singular notation, but it will become obvious to the reader that we think of it partly in the plural: post-structuralism is also post-structuralisms. 1981F. Jameson Political Unconscious i. 21 It is..increasingly clear that hermeneutic or interpretive activity has become one of the basic polemic targets of contemporary post-structuralism in France, which..has tended to identify such operations with historicism. 1984Listener 16 Feb. 10/3 In Britain, Structuralism, post-Structuralism and Deconstructionism have made inroads on the thinking of young intellectuals ghettoed in polytechnics. 1987Financial Times 7 Feb. p. xiv/4 Kuznetsov's..central device owes something to European post-structuralism and the idea that everything can be read as a text. 1988New Republic 29 Feb. 31/2 Most would now agree that its main importance was to usher in various post-structuralisms, of which the most central and most thrilling has been deconstruction. 1992English XLI. 176 Most post-structuralism may appear to say that the text is autonomous and that literary criticism has no ethical dimension. |