Poststructuralism literary criticism

Literary Criticism (POST-STRUCTURALISM)

1. TRINIDAD, LUZ CLARITA, M. BSED-IV English Literary Criticism Dr. Vilma Esparrago

2. Give your own meaning to the given pictures. One word only. Raise your left hand if you have an idea. Your points depends on how many words you will give.

3. What is POST-STRUCTURALISM? Post-structuralism offers a way of studying how knowledge is produced and critiques structuralist premises. It argues that because history and culture condition the study of underlying structures, both are subject to biases and misinterpretations.

4. A post-structuralist approach argues that to understand an object (e.g., a text), it is necessary to study both the object itself and the systems of knowledge that produced the object.

5. Poststructuralism  is less singularly defined as a movement than is structuralism. A number of literary theories fall under the larger umbrella of poststructuralism, including the reader-response criticism. 

6. Poststructuralism evolved alongside French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s theory of  deconstruction , which emphasized this concept of unstable, unfixed meaning as it functioned in language. 

7. LC’s thought….. Poststructuralism has something to do with the reader’s response criticism. It is more likely the understanding of the reader to the text. It has also something to do with the deconstructive criticism.

8. To further explain LC’s thought…… POST-STRUCTURALISM is closely related to reader’s response criticism and deconstructive criticism whereas reader’s culture and society plays just as much as a role in interpretation as the author’s. Meaning, post-structuralism criticism is also a reader centered theories of meaning.

9. THEORY OF POST-STRUCTURALISM

10. Post-structuralist philosophers like Derrida and Foucault did not form a self-conscious group, but each responded to the traditions of phenomenology  and  structuralism .

11. Structuralism rejected the phenomenological idea that knowledge could be centered on the human knower, and sought what they considered a more secure foundation for knowledge.

12. Post-structuralism rejects the notion of the essential quality of the dominant relation in the hierarchy, choosing rather to expose these relations and the dependency of the dominant term on its apparently subservient counterpart. The only way to properly understand these meanings is to deconstruct the assumptions and knowledge systems that produce multiplicity, the illusion of singular meaning.

13. POST-STRUCTURALISM BY JACQUES DERRIDA

14. Derrida rejects all of metaphysical history with its hierarchies and dichotomies that have survived to this day, the foundation upon which all of  logic  ( logos , which means language) was laid. Derrida has rejected structuralism, and as a result, the Saussurean schema (the signifier/signified relationship) has been rethought.

15. ACTIVITY AND EXAMPLES OF LITERARY PIECE

16. Rose Painted © Paige Published: June 2015 If I were a Rose painted black, would you cast me aside like blackened, burnt rice? Would my color tarnish my sweet smell? If I were a Rose painted black, would the richness of my ebony petals  make me unworthy  of being called a Rose?

17. If I were a Rose painted white, would my ivory petals be worth more than silver? Would my sweet smell captivate  a room welcomingly? If I were just a Rose, sweet-smelling and vibrant and your mind was blind... would my color matter? Source:  https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/rose-painted

18. An Ocean Of Memories © Kimberly L. Briones Published: February 2006 My family is the ocean around us. My father is the hurricane,  knocking anything and everybody out of his path. My mother is the sunshine after the storm (my father),  clearing and calming everything else. My oldest brother is the sand,  kicked and blown away by my dad,  but warmed with care by my mom.

19. My oldest sister is the breeze in the wind,  cool, quiet, and there when you need her. My other two brothers are the stingrays,  dangerous,  but also willing to fight anyone who comes along. And I,  I am an old ship at the bottom of the sea,  lost, abandoned, but full of memories. Source:  https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/an-ocean-of-memories

20. Are you guys ready to analyze a piece using poststructuralism?

21. Go get your pen and paper!!!

22. Your heart can only take so much flame to accommodate a one-time love of fireworks . All the others love  only the ashes it leaves behind. What’s sad is that, after a night of lights and explosions , the ones who start a fire in you only get burned in the process. (www.tumblr.com/mademoisellerika)

23. A Butterfly © Silvia Burley Published: July 2015 A caterpillar walks in beauty through the sunshine and the rain leaving sweet memories  to ease away the pain In time her image changes and yet her soul remains the same returning to the heavens from that in which she came A butterfly of beauty dancing upon the reef softly whispers to me comforts me in grief

24. Do not cry for me together we are one my love for you shines brighter than the ever glowing sun Her beauty, the brightest colors gentle touch of love fluttering wings casting light shining through the clouds above A caterpillar walked in beauty a gentle soul was she alas, she is now a butterfly yet she'll always be Grandma to me. Source:  https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-butterfly