deconstructiveadj.
/diːkənˈstrʌktɪv/ Philosophy and Literary Theory.
Characterized by deconstruction (sense b).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > language theories of individual philosophers > [adjective] > characterized by deconstructionism
deconstructive1977
deconstructionist1982
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [adjective] > types of literary criticism
genetic1880
intertextual1904
form-historical1928
form-critical1933
New Critical1945
Leavisite1946
Leavisian1947
Arnoldian1953
post-structural1961
post-structuralist1967
Barthesian1971
Derridean1973
narratological1975
deconstructive1977
new historicist1985
1977 Dædalus Fall 108 The semiotics of literature thus gives rise to a ‘deconstructive movement’ in which each pole of an opposition can be used to show that the other is in error.
1981 M. Whitford in J. Wintle Makers of Mod. Culture 130/1 The deconstructive strategy is controversial, partly because it is not entirely clear whether..Derrida has altogether avoided implicit a priori arguments.
1983 Notes & Queries Dec. 568/1 Bloom vaunts an ‘American tradition of criticism’..to be distinguished from the deconstructive dialectics of Europe.
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