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Deconstruction in Literary Theory - Lecture 11

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This lecture introduces deconstruction through Derrida’s relation to Levi-Strauss and Paul de Man, comparing their approaches to writing, speech, rhetoric, and grammar. It applies these ideas to examples from Yeats, Proust, and “All in the Family.”

Syllabus

- Chapter 1. Derrida and Levi-Strauss
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- Chapter 2. Writing and Speech
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- Chapter 3. Paul de Man and Nazism
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- Chapter 4. Similarities Between De Man and Derrida
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- Chapter 5. De Man and Derrida: Differences
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- Chapter 6. Examples: "All in the Family," Yeats, and Proust
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