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post-structuralism

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  • noun A doctrine that rejects structuralism’s claims to objectivity and emphasises the plurality of meaning.

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Examples

  • More than anything else, I would say, this changing of the critical guard, the cycling through of formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, historicism, cultural studies, is what makes academic criticism "less appealing" to non-academic readers.

    Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

  • Holding my breath, I gently prised the sticker away from the tissue paper, and unwrapped the bundle, listening carefully for the sound of Pat or David busting in to offer me an espresso or a lecture on post-structuralism.

    Archive 2009-09-01 lili 2009

  • Holding my breath, I gently prised the sticker away from the tissue paper, and unwrapped the bundle, listening carefully for the sound of Pat or David busting in to offer me an espresso or a lecture on post-structuralism.

    Pink! lili 2009

  • The posthuman is the point at which the most pressing concerns in gender studies, post-structuralism, cultural materialism & postmodernism converge.

    Ballardian » The Emergence of the Posthuman Subject 2010

  • Not bad, that, given the nonexistence at the time of post-structuralism or, indeed, structuralism.

    The Last Laugh Joseph O'Neil 2008

  • Not bad, that, given the nonexistence at the time of post-structuralism or, indeed, structuralism.

    The Last Laugh Joseph O'Neil 2008

  • I understand that intellectuals like for all people to be bound to them as "natural superiors," but academics long ago abdicated the throne when they embraced relativism, deconstruction and post-structuralism.

    Progressivism Has Destroyed Classical Education 2010

  • I understand that intellectuals like for all people to be bound to them as "natural superiors," but academics long ago abdicated the throne when they embraced relativism, deconstruction and post-structuralism.

    Progressivism Has Destroyed Classical Education 2010

  • I understand that intellectuals like for all people to be bound to them as "natural superiors," but academics long ago abdicated the throne when they embraced relativism, deconstruction and post-structuralism.

    Progressivism Has Destroyed Classical Education 2010

  • A review of the literature informs me that post-structuralism, womanism, libertarianism, postmodernism, transnationalism, and queer, critical and post-colonial theory are all central to third wave ideology.

    Daniel Krotz: Third Wave Feminism 2009

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