Vaidehi Hariyani

Hello Readers, This blog is a part of my Classroom activity given on this blog . It is impossible to define Deconstruction like Philosophy or Literary criticism once and for all.   Jacques Derrida himself doesn’t define it. Deconstruction is not a destructive activity, but it is an inquiry into the foundations of everything. Post-Structuralist critics go deep into the foundation of text and then they try to undermine it. Derrida says that every text contains element which can deconstruct itself.   As per Derrida,   “Each and every text is read as event and events can be read with different perspective.” He also throws light on free play of meaning. The meaning of one word is set of another word, so one word leads to another and so on. Derrida says “FINAL MEANING IS ALWAYS POSTPONED.”  He also talks about Phonocentricism and logocentricism as well as Metaphysics of Presence. He denies western tendency to privilege speech over writing by...

Hello Readers, This blog is a part of my academic  activity which is given on this blog . In literary theory, Structuralism is an approach to analysing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure .There are many Structuralist critics like Ferdinand Saussure,  Gerard  Genette , Roland Barthes, Claude Levi-Strauss etc. Structuralist critics found basic common structure in every work. As all the human beings  have a same structure from inside, similarly literature has basic structure and it is same everywhere whether it movies, TV serials or advertisement etc. Here I would like to refer to  Northrop Frye: The Archetypes of Literature " Frye  identified common pattern in every work of art. So he talks about the totality of literature. According to him all are connected somewhere . And when we do criticism from this perspective, It is Archetypal criticism. And Archetypal critics finds this sort of recurring pat...