Deconstruction

Deconstructionism is a type of literary criticism, or perhaps a philosophical approach to criticism, which involves analyzing cultural products ("reading a text") such as a novel and deconstructing the assumptions and beliefs that make up both the way the text was created, and the way the text is received. The former might be considered a type of contextualization; the latter is related to audience studies. Deconstructionism is strongly tied to the work of Jacques Derrida, and has been followed by numerous scholars including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, etc, etc.

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