The Event of Deconstruction and the Place of Literature Cover Image
  • Price 4.50 €

Събитието на деконструкцията и мястото на литературата
The Event of Deconstruction and the Place of Literature

Author(s): Daniela Strakova
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: deconstruction; deconstruction strategies; space; literary space; event of deconstruction

Summary/Abstract: In the last “postmodern” years, the literature is characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator. Postmodernism as a whole tends to resist definition or classification as a “movement”. The article’s focus is the literary theory and philosophy of language derived principally from Jacques Derrida’s 1967 work Of Grammatology and his speech in 1966 in conference in Baltimore. Although he avoided defining the term deconstruction directly, Derrida sought to apply Martin Heidegger’s concept of destruction or, to textual reading. Heidegger’s term referred to a process of exploring the categories and concepts that tradition has imposed on a word, and the history behind them. Derrida opted for deconstruction over the literal translation destruction to suggest precision rather than violence. Deconstruction denotes the pursuing of the meaning of a text to the point of exposing the supposed contradictions and internal oppositions upon which it is founded - supposedly showing that those foundations are irreducibly complex, unstable, or impossible. We purpose to show in the article that the discourse project of Derrida “happens” always different and unexpectedly in the process of reading, in the space of the literary text. Jacques Derrida defined the place of literature аs laying between the institution law and the idiom.

  • Issue Year: 57/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 26 - 35
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian