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First, the matter of a definition: what exactly are we to understand by the word ‘deconstruction’? In practice, deconstruction is exemplified primarily in the critical readings made by the contemporary French philosopher Jacques Derrida, of a series of texts in the history of Western philosophy, from Plato to Descartes, Roussea and Hegel to Husserl and Heidegger, and of a series of more recer texts in the history of structuralism and post-structuralism, from Saussure to Lévi-Strauss, Lacan and Foucault.
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‘Jacques Derrida’, in Structuralism and Since, ed. John Sturrock (Oxford, 1979) pp. 159, 172.
Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism, ed. Josue V. Harari (London, 1979) p. 37.
Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore, Md., 1976) p. 158.
‘Translator’s Preface’, Of Grammatology, p. lxix.
Quoted by Spivak, ibid., p. lxxv.
Ibid., pp. lxxv-vi.
Blindness and Insight (New York, 1971) p. 116.
Of Grammatology, p. lxxvi.
‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’, in The Structuralist Controversy, ed. Richard Macksey and Eugene Donato (Baltimore, Md., 1970) p. 248.
Ibid., p. 249.
Ibid., p. 250.
Ibid., p. 263.
Ibid., p. 264.
Ibid.
‘Jacques Derrida’, pp. 170–1.
Joseph N. Riddel, ‘Interpreting Stevens: an Essay on Poetry and Thinking’, Boundary 2 (Fall 1972) p. 81.
Blindness and Insight, p. 29.
William Carlos Williams, Penguin Critical Anthology, ed. Charles Tomlinson (Harmondsworth, Middx., 1972) pp. 162–4.
Quoted by Joseph N. Riddel, The Inverted Bell: Modernism and Counter-poetics of William Carlos Williams (Baton Rouge, La., 1974) p. 57.
Quoted by ibid., p. 58.
Ibid., p. 73.
Theory of Criticism (Baltimore, Md., 1976) p. 233.
Opus Posthumous, ed. Samuel French Morse (New York, 1957) p. 163.
Wallace Stevens: A Celebration, ed. Frank Doggett and Robert Buttel (Princeton, N. J., 1980) pp. 275–9.
Existence and Being, ed. Warner Brock (Chicago, IIl., 1949).
Heidegger (Glasgow, 1978) p. 138.
The Necessary Angel (New York 1951) pp. 174–5
The Inverted Bell, p. 214.
‘Motives in Metaphor: John Ashbery and Modernist Long Poems’, Genre, XI (Winter 1978) p. 661.
Wallace Stevens, pp. 317–19.
Collected Poems, pp. 345, 474.
The Structuralist Controversy, p. 264.
Collected Poems, p. 10.
The Clairvoyant Eye (Baton Rouge, La., 1965) pp. 275–6.
‘The Rhetoric of Temporality’, Interpretations: Theory and Practice, ed. Charles S. Singleton (Baltimore, Md., 1969) pp. 181–2.
Wallace Stevens, p. 356.
Theory of Criticism, p. 230.
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Patke, R. (1989). Deconstruction and American Poetry: Williams and Stevens. In: Rajnath (eds) Deconstruction: A Critique. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10335-5_9
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