"Deconstructing the text".... WT!!!
Deconstruction is a term used in contemporary literary criticism, and the social science, coined by Jacques Derrida in the 1960s. The Center for Media Literacy defines deconstruction as "The process by which the audience identifies the elements that make up the construction of meaning within a text.
In 1985 Derrida stated that he preferred to describe "what deconstruction is not, or rather ought not to be" Derrida states that deconstruction is not an analysis, a critique, or a method.
When asked "What is deconstruction?" Derrida stated, "I have no simple and formalisable response to this question. All my essays are attempts to have it out with this formidable question" (Derrida, 1985, pg.4).
Paul de Man, another very important literary criticism, explained Derrida deconstruction: "It's possible, within text, to frame a question or undo assertions made in the text, by means of elements which are in the text, which frequently would be precisely structures that play off the rhetorical against grammatical elements." (de Man, in Moynihan 1986, at 156.)
Rorty, describe deconstruction as the term that refers in the first instance to the way in which the accidental features of a text can be seen as betraying, subverting, its purportedly essencial message. (Rorty, 1995).
But, literally, do we know which is the most important point of decosntructing a text? The next cartoon explain us how deconstruction is viewed around
