Deconstructive "Contortion" and Women's Historical Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4375059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary F Robertson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 705 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772935 |
| OpenAlex | W2315230426 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Deconstruction has an image problem relevant to feminist poetics. The American critical audience often thinks of it as a (non)theory insisting on irreducible incoherence and absence in complete opposition to all the old usual suspects: experience, the empirical, representation.1 In another context, it might be timely to explore why theorists who know better sometimes distort deconstruction so as to dissociate it totally from representation and the empirical. However, this image problem is examined here with an eye to its consequences for the current stirring debate about what a philosophically compelling basis for feminist poetics might be
Aesthetics · Art · Sociology · History · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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