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Deconstruction
Scope Note
A philosophical movement and theory of literary criticism which maintains that literature has no absolute truth or meaning since words can only refer to other words, thus subverting their own meaning
Used For
Deconstructionism
Broader Term
Literary criticism
Related Term
Critical theory
Intertextuality
Philosophy
Postmodernism
Semantics
Subject Category
430 Humanities
Date Added
March 2003