Literary Deconstruction and The Family
I’ve been always told I think differently, and I’ve also always joked that I’m an A+ rationalizer, but the reality might be that I’m just an extreme English nerd. When I first learned what deconstruction meant, in English 251, I hated it. Talking about the incongruencies of signifiers over signified from individual to individual was as frustrating as the classic question: how do we know we actually see the same colors? As my English career continued, I persisted in being annoyed with deconstruction…while developing my already very deconstructive mindset. Because the thing is, literary interpretation is all about deconstruction. According to Wikipedia, literary deconstruction “generally tries to demonstrate that any text is not a discrete whole but contains several irreconcilable and contradictory meanings; that any text therefore has more than one interpretation; that the text itself links these interpretations inextricably..." ...