Definition of Deconstruction
Deconstruction
de·con·struc·tion
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(noun)
a philosophical approach of textual criticism that works to understand the relationship between text and meaning by taking apart tropes in a way that reveals their inherent contradiction by examining the difference between how tropes appear in one work and how they compare to other related tropes or ideas;
e.g. Deconstruction asks the question of how would a particular trope play out if real life consequences were applied to it?
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