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Magliola's oeuvre, including his books, book-chapters, and articles, is treated in Jin Y. Park, ed., Buddhisms and Deconstructions [52] (2006), which collects the papers from the "Close Encounter" session on Magliola's work, 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (1999) and adds, as well, papers by ...
In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning.The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who described it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences which are valued above appearances.
One of the many difficulties of expressing Jacques Derrida's project (deconstruction) in simple terms is the enormous scale of it.Just to understand the context of Derrida's theory, one needs to be acquainted intimately with philosophers such as Socrates–Plato–Aristotle, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Charles Sanders Peirce, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx ...
As a school of thought, the Yale School is more closely allied with the post-structuralist dimensions of deconstruction as opposed to its phenomenological dimensions. . Additionally, the Yale School is philosophically affined to the 1970s version of deconstruction that John D. Caputo has described as a "Nietzschean free play of signifiers" and not the 1990s version of deconstruction that was ...
This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.
The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk [63] Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon [64] Soul Mountain (1990) by Gao Xingjian [65] Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie [66] American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis [67] Time's Arrow (1991) by Martin Amis [68] The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers [69] Mao II (1991) by Don ...
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 – December 21, 1983), born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, [1] was a Belgian-born literary critic and literary theorist.He was known particularly for his importation of German and French philosophical approaches into Anglo-American literary studies and critical theory.
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]