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- adjective philosophy Of, pertaining to, or advocating
post-structuralism - noun philosophy An advocate of
post-structuralism
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Examples
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For an excellent account of the status of feeling in "poststructuralist" thought, see Rei Terada, passim. close window
Notes on 'Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)' 2005
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Leonard woos Madeleine by playing on her belief in the type of old-fashioned romance debunked by the poststructuralist theory then in vogue in English departments—and the traditional relationship he offers is catnip to Madeleine, who is beginning to doubt the authenticity of her own feelings.
Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011
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In Becoming Dickens, Douglas-Fairhurst, rejecting recent "poststructuralist" literary theory, reexamines Dickens and his England within their historical and political contexts.
Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011
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Chris Weedon, one of the best known scholars working in the feminist poststructuralist tradition, has sought to integrate individual experience and social power in a theory of subjectivity.
Wikipedia on Derrida and deconstruction, Foucault and structuralism, postmodernism and discourse 2009
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In Becoming Dickens, Douglas-Fairhurst, rejecting recent "poststructuralist" literary theory, reexamines Dickens and his England within their historical and political contexts.
Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011
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Law should look at genre theories and poststructuralist approaches to understand fan engagements and productions.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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By privileging literary and cultural objects, and by ignoring the social and institutional relations in which these objects are located and embedded, queer theory enacts a restricted use of the notion of “text” – a narrow conception of writing and inscription that is incongruent with a poststructuralist project.
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Jeffrey Eugenides's diverting "The Marriage Plot" charts the pilgrim's progress of a would-be Victorian-literature scholar through the obstacles of poststructuralist theory and her doomed marriage to a manic-depressive.
Synthesis and Ambivalence Sam Sacks 2011
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It is because queer theory considers only certain cultural and literary objects appropriate for examination, and because it is merely interested in an application of poststructuralist ideas to these objects, that the lives, bodies, and experiences of transgendered people are eclipsed.
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In Becoming Dickens, Douglas-Fairhurst, rejecting recent "poststructuralist" literary theory, reexamines Dickens and his England within their historical and political contexts.
Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011
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