God, I think I love you for linking to the deconstruction of the shopping list! It's one of the most hilarious things I have ever read on LJ. (Apart from the Harry Potter version of "The Waste Land", that is.)
And while I must admit that I don't understand deconstruction, either, my main problem with deconstruction (I wouldn't necessarily use the term interchangeably with "postmodernism") is the fact that a paradox lies at the heart of the theory itself. Deconstruction deconstructs texts, meanings and grand narratives; but it is written in a text supposed to have a certain meaning, ending up as another grand narrative of criticism. I.e. it deconstructs itself.
And now you have made me want to reread Possession. I read it during my first uni semester and probably understood less than half of it because I lacked the background knowledge.
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Date: 2006-08-30 07:47 am (UTC)And while I must admit that I don't understand deconstruction, either, my main problem with deconstruction (I wouldn't necessarily use the term interchangeably with "postmodernism") is the fact that a paradox lies at the heart of the theory itself. Deconstruction deconstructs texts, meanings and grand narratives; but it is written in a text supposed to have a certain meaning, ending up as another grand narrative of criticism. I.e. it deconstructs itself.
And now you have made me want to reread Possession. I read it during my first uni semester and probably understood less than half of it because I lacked the background knowledge.