Yale School of deconstruction

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intellectual movement school of literary theory

The Yale School of deconstruction was a group of influential literary theorists at Yale University who advanced and popularized deconstructive criticism in American literary studies.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	intellectual movement ⓘ school of literary theory ⓘ
academicDiscipline	humanities ⓘ literary studies ⓘ
associatedWith	Yale University Department of Comparative Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale University Department of English NERFINISHED ⓘ
coreConcept	close reading ⓘ indeterminacy of the text ⓘ instability of meaning ⓘ rhetoric versus meaning ⓘ textual self-contradiction ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
era	late 20th century ⓘ
field	deconstruction ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ literary theory ⓘ
hasApproach	emphasis on figurative language ⓘ questioning authorial intention ⓘ reading texts against their apparent meaning ⓘ
influenced	American literary criticism ⓘ American literary theory ⓘ comparative literature in the United States ⓘ theory of interpretation ⓘ
influencedBy	European structuralism ⓘ Ferdinand de Saussure NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacques Derrida NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Heidegger NERFINISHED ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ post-structuralism ⓘ
knownFor	advancing deconstructive literary criticism ⓘ debates over theory in American academia ⓘ popularizing deconstruction in the United States ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
locatedIn	New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ Yale University NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	post-structuralism ⓘ theory ⓘ
notableMember	Geoffrey Hartman NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Bloom NERFINISHED ⓘ J. Hillis Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacques Derrida NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul de Man NERFINISHED ⓘ
periodOfActivity	1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ

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