The Invention of Deconstruction

Currie, Mark

doi:10.1057/9781137307033

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“…Similar to a pin, piling layers of papers together, the skull intertwines binary layers of meaning, all at once in one place: life and death, mockery and criticism, sovereign and the fool, jest and rigor convolute each other thus enable the reader to follow the elusive route for a deconstructive reading in which meaning is ever yet to be located. In general terms, the radical altering of the centre concept results in the annulling of the ultimate destination for the meaning to settle, thus all milestones within this realm stand as a destination themselves (Currie, 2013;Howells, 1999). In light of the preceding approach; implying his absence with its presence, the skull of Yorick is chosen as a triangulation point to rediscover the Shakespearean play, Hamlet.…”

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An Enigmatic Play: When Skulls Speak Loudly A Deconstructive Reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Tekşen

2024

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Being vivacious and colourful members of the medieval and Renaissance courts, jesters served for a variety of recreational purposes in addition to having the oblique subaltern voices in the administration of the kingdoms. Despite their ostentatious clothing and jaunty manners, which they manifested while delivering jokes and tricks, their contribution to the royal administration had to be indirect and clever. Indeed, these men of great observation and acute cunning used their humour in order to voice what cannot be expressed by the others. In their peculiar kind of way that was also associated with their divergent nature, jesters were inclined to act as the advocates of truth which had to be suppressed or ignored at times in face of royal hegemony. As a rather skilled playwright, who was also familiar with the conventions of the court manners, Shakespeare spared an exceptionally subtle role for the character of the jester in his plays. This role reveals itself through witty jokes of criticism masked by the jolly words of a fool. Nevertheless, Shakespeare ascribes a markedly grim condition for his late jester Yorick who has to deliver his criticism through his deceased body, a skull per se. Deriving mobility from the Derridean sense of decentralizing the meaning, the article employs a deconstructionist reading of Hamlet through the absence of a jester to exhibit how the lack of a critical perspective may yield catastrophic dim-sightedness.

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An Enigmatic Play: When Skulls Speak Loudly A Deconstructive Reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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2024

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“…Mark Currie is a notable metafiction theorist and contributed so many perspectives on postmodernism, especially metafiction and deconstruction. He has written many theoretical works, such as 'Metafiction' (Currie, 1995), 'Postmodern Narrative Theory' (Currie, 1998), and 'The Invention of Deconstruction' (Currie, 2013). These three different works are related to postmodern tendencies.…”

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The pragmatic study of metafiction in Preeti Shenoy’s ‘The Secret Wish List’ and ‘It Happens for A Reason’

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Hassan³

2022

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This study aims to spotlight the postmodern tendency of metafiction in Preeti Shenoy’s selected texts. Metafiction is self-conscious in relation to language, literary form, and storytelling in fiction. This form of fiction accentuates its construct and reminds the readers to be aware of a fictional work. Shenoy is a noteworthy postmodern writer, and her famous novels are ‘The Secret Wish List’ (2012) and ‘It Happens for Reason’ (2014). These two novels exhibit the subject of postmodern metafiction through her writings. In these novels, the protagonists overcome their family doctrines to fulfill their wishes. The method of study adopted the metafiction theories proposed by Mark Currie, Patricia Waugh, and Linda Hutcheon. It highlights Shenoy’s texts that represent the elements of metafiction through the protagonists. Using various theories related to postmodern metafiction, the view of metafiction in the texts is substantiated and explored. The postmodern perspective of metafiction is explored in Shenoy’s texts and analyzed with metafiction theories. The study results are compared and discussed with other studies and contemporary texts concerning metafiction. The findings show that metafiction is applicable in the texts of the two novels by Shenoy. She projects the aspects of metafiction in her works through her writing, especially narration, both fiction and reality.

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“…53 Jameson did not see Derrida as part of the solution, but, as Mark Currie has recently shown, history became one of the guiding if contested themes of Derrida's first reception in America. 54 In Alexander Gelley's review of Of Grammatology for Diacritics from 1972, he argued that Derrida's work seemed 'to clear a new path for the historical study of cultural and philosophical concepts', and claimed that 'in contrast to many contemporary structuralists … he views this "formal organization which in itself has no sense" as susceptible to historical delineation'. 55 Gelley made clear that Derrida's argument could also be turned against the New Critics, and he claimed that Derrida had contributed to the process of breaking down the distinction between literary and non-literary texts, which had been a central plank of the New Critics' rejection of history.…”

Section: Deconstruction the 'New Criticism' And The Problem Of Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Deconstructive reading could challenge racial, gender and sexual hierarchies, and thus participate in the broader political activism of the age. 69 This political reading of Derrida (and post-structuralism more generally) as a deconstruction of ethnocentrism, sexism and patriarchy was developed more fully and consistently by a younger generation of scholars including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Joan Wallach Scott and Judith Butler amongst others.…”

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The Invention of Deconstruction

Cited by 12 publications

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An Enigmatic Play: When Skulls Speak Loudly A Deconstructive Reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

An Enigmatic Play: When Skulls Speak Loudly A Deconstructive Reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

The pragmatic study of metafiction in Preeti Shenoy’s ‘The Secret Wish List’ and ‘It Happens for A Reason’

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