Structuralism
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What is post-structuralism?
Emphasises instability of meaning, reader interpretation more important than author intention
Post-structuralist writers
Barthes and Foucault
When did post-structuralism emerge?
The 1950’ and 60’s in France
What is deconstruction?
The meaning of language is indeterminate because language is indeterminate, it is a system of signifiers and can never be the object it represents
When did deconstruction come about?
1960’s
Deconstructionist writers
Derrida and Barbara Johnson
Who created deconstruction?
Derrida
Who created structuralism?
Ferdinand de saussure
What is structuralism
A system of signs and signifiers, understandable only in relation to each other and the broader system and not reflective of a given reality
Who was both structuralist and later post-structuralist?
Barthes