poststructuralist

Examples

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• Poststructuralists who bury ethical criticism beneath an epistemology of perspectivism inadvertently pull the rug from under their own reformist social agenda.

  Academic text (1998)

• Where is the poststructuralist who can tell us the exact way in which the mind and the physical world interact?

  Fiction book (1996)

• What can the poststructuralist lament that "writing is loss" possibly mean?

  Academic text (2007)

• That's why we call ourselves poststructuralist.

  Academic text (1992)

• The poststructuralist's somewhat unsatisfactory proposal was to entrust this task to the "ascetic" intellectual.

  Academic text (2008)

• Poststructuralists tend to ignore the fact that the discourse gets co-opted and reworked by local actors with their own interests.

  Academic text (1997)

• In contrast to Gubar and Nussbaum, I have found that feminists who use the hermeneutic tools of poststructuralist discourse produce more historically vivid readings of Swift.

  Fiction book (1991)

• While second-wave feminism assumes that under the lipstick traces of patriarchy there is a free, natural woman waiting to be uncovered, poststructuralist feminism rejects the idea of an "underneath it all."

  Academic text (1993)

• Many poststructuralists argue that language does not have fixed meanings, emphasizing its fluid nature.

• As a poststructuralist, she challenges traditional interpretations of texts and cultural practices.

Synonyms

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deconstructionist

vspoststructuralist

• Specialized

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A person who studies texts to find hidden ideas

supports broad theoretical views that question fixed meanings in language and society

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