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Article: Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 18, 1991
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"I'M A Bit of a deconstructionist myself", says Morris Zapp, the professor of literature from Euphoria State University in David Lodge's comic novel of academe, "Small World". "It's kind of exciting-the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on." Zapp is that rare thing, an honest man among thieves. Deconstructionists make their living by robbing literary texts of what earlier and naive critics took to be their meanings; but few deconstructionists are brave enough to admit that this critique of meaning also undermines their own efforts.
That embarrassing fact is now the least of deconstruction's problems. What David Lehman's ...
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