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Semantic drift and context can quite easily change the meaning of a printed word (Historians figured this out before the poststructuralists did).

A Gutenberg Bible is a bit of both. 2009

There are several things wrong with this contention, although I do not myself believe that "theory" of the kind Brooks discusses (he is reviewing a book centered mostly on figures like Foucault and Derrida, the "poststructuralists") was itself necessarily a bad thing for literary study.

Literary Study 2009

It also seems to be what poststructuralists are getting at when they rant about the death of the author: what they mean is the total absorption of the writer's ego into the act of writing from which vantage point the whole sense of individual identity can be seen to be an illusion (of language). close window

Notes on 'Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites' 2007

We live at a time when art is enlisted in all manner of extra-artistic projects, from gender politics to the grim leftism of neo-Marxists, poststructuralists, and all the other exotic fauna who congregate around the art world and the academy.

Contemplating ... Frank Wilson 2008

Hermeneutics, structuralists, and poststructuralists tried to find the answer and are still seeking it.

"To honor and celebrate" the "voices and votes" of the primaries, "both Senator Obama's and Senator Clinton's names will be placed in nomination." Ann Althouse 2008

Ironically, the word ˜trope™ is to be heard correctly these days mainly from the lips of the dreaded poststructuralists.

Tropes Bacon, John 2008

That leaves one wondering of what those poststructuralists were supplementing.

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And this was the loftily regressive situation from which the French poststructuralists embarked.

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For example, consider this particular morsel:During the 1960s the poststructuralists sought to supplement Marx with more radical critiques of “civilization” set forth by Nietzsche and Heidegger.

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For example, consider this particular morsel:During the 1960s the poststructuralists sought to supplement Marx with more radical critiques of “civilization” set forth by Nietzsche and Heidegger.

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