Beyond the symbol: Deconstructing social reality
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- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Southern Speech Communication Journal
- Vol. 51 (2) , 125-141
Abstract
This essay presents a brief account of the new rhetoric, deconstruction, and explains its value to scholars of rhetoric and criticism. It argues that the prevalent fear and hostility toward deconstruction is largely unwarranted.Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- IV. Beyond deconstruction: The symbol and social realitySouthern Speech Communication Journal, 1983
- Turning the Screw of InterpretationYale French Studies, 1977
- The Prison-House of Language1972