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Explain two main purposes in deconstructing a literary text

      

Explain two main purposes in deconstructing a literary text

  

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a. To reveal the text's undecidability - In revealing a text's undecidability we seek to show that the ,meaning of the text is indefinite, undecidable, plural, conflicting array of
possible meanings and that the text has no meaning in the traditional sense of the word.

b) The second purpose is to reveal the complex operations of the ideologies upon which the text is constructed - we may want to see how ideologies operate in our own view of the world. We look out for meaning in the text that conflict with its main theme, focusing on the self-
contradictions of which the text seems unaware.

NatalieR answered the question on June 13, 2022 at 12:29


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