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deconstructionist
Variant of deconstruction
noun
a method of literary analysis originated in France in the mid-20th cent. and based on a theory that, by the very nature of language and usage, no text can have a fixed, coherent meaning
Related Forms:
- deconstructionist noun, adjective
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