Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.
Naomi Wolf
Related All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The problem with this program is its premise that the state's central bureaucracy should control all... JIM HOLT The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of ... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of ... CAMILLE PAGLIA The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a ... JOHN BERGER In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to c... GEORGE ORWELL I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language,... DAVID SOUTER It has been an underpinning of U.S. policy and a premise of the Perry report that a South-North dial... WENDY SHERMAN Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. WENDELL PHILLIPS Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. WILLIAM PHILLIPS Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism WENDELL PHILLIPS Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ... ALICE OSWALD Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word wi... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printe... TIMOTHY NOAH Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all... PAUL PROVENZA The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep w... CAROL ANN DUFFY Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by... D.H. LAWRENCE Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by... D.H. LAWRENCE Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man h... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help read... ANNE STEVENSON With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, a... ANTONIN ARTAUD This indictment is confused, confusing and internally inconsistent. It uses terminology which no one... HERBERT STERN The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning i... JANNE TELLER Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we... LAJOS EGRI Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although o... CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS The administration must act promptly to ensure that the central premise of the Affordable Care Act i... JOHN DELANEY The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has... LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the a... AVIJEET DAS Regardless of what you do with the language, Jesus is warning people there is a destiny that is fear... RANDY ANDERSON The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it i... CLIFFORD GEERTZ Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession abou... STACEY M. ROSENFELD CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain abou... JEN CAMPBELL War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear... AVIJEET DAS All's well that carries on well AMIT ABRAHAM For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be de... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can b... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of mur... NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, ... LELAND RYKEN The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of con... EDWARD SAPIR There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived ... ANNE STEVENSON The government has shown no evidence that he actually attended; the government has failed to prove i... WAZHMA MOJADDIDI Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its tradit... TOM WOLFE One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it i... ROBERTO UNGER What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form o... EDUARDO PAES So many people understand language, but few people understand the real meaning of language. They tha... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth... RENE DENFELD To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from ... WILLIAM PLOMER What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. CHARLIE CHAPLIN Magnanimity has no need to prove the prudence of its motives VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is o... OSCAR WILDE This [language and criticism] is unbecoming of the president of Syria. WALID JUMBLATT There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Sov... ERIC BOGOSIAN But even in such works where the author is ideally unobtrusive, he remains diffused through the book... VLADIMIR NABOKOV I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. HENRY MILLER You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or s... EDWARD EVERETT HALE It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as... DAVID JOSIAH BREWER In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ... VICTOR HUGO Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; ... JOHN DAVIDSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM For the past one week, he has not reported for work. All I can say is he filled in the leave form. I... FESTUS UEITELE The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive i... CLAY SHIRKY There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like... ANDREW VACHSS The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken pre... HARRY A. BLACKMUN The flaw in the statute [is] that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken p... HARRY A. BLACKMUN Alcatraz actually knows a person named Brandon Sanderson. That man, however, is a fantasy writer and... BRANDON SANDERSON Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their... ANTOINE LAVOISIER Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams an... JOSé SARAMAGO First of all, you can't understand what it is and it has no meaning, BO DIDDLEY Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's ... DEAN KOONTZ I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a cel... GRAHAM JOYCE The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamli... E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that? Please try to describe the picture as ... DEYTH BANGER A cube or sphere has the characteristics of its form or shape, that is why one calls it a sphere or ... LEVIAK B. KELLY The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows th... IMRE KERTESZ Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the lan... VICTOR HUGO Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. EMMET FOX Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. DR. EMMIT FOX Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting EMMET FOX Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place wher... ADAM JOHNSON A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it... MILAN KUNDERA There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they... AVIJEET DAS A dispersing wolf doesn't mean that wolf recovery has started in Colorado. It's cool the wolf went a... ED BANGS The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite... GEORG CANTOR It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily... CLARICE LISPECTOR I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the exi... BARBARA EHRENREICH The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS
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NAOMI CAMPBELL Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to... NAOMI CAMPBELL I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it. NAOMI CAMPBELL Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. NAOMI CAMPBELL I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, '... NAOMI CAMPBELL Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion. NAOMI CAMPBELL What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives. NAOMI CAMPBELL The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. ... NAOMI CAMPBELL I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. NAOMI CAMPBELL Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works. NAOMI CAMPBELL It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, r... NAOMI CAMPBELL I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me. NAOMI CAMPBELL I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ... NAOMI CAMPBELL Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls ... NAOMI CAMPBELL I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. NAOMI CAMPBELL My features are completely ethnic. NAOMI CAMPBELL The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. If we don't get the money fast enough to r... AL NAOMI The water does circulate out of the basin eventually. But it depends a lot on meteorological conditi... AL NAOMI It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to neg... AL NAOMI I can't go above it by law. That's what I am authorized to do. Anything above that means I have to s... AL NAOMI If you don't install some type of substantial hurricane protection along the Gulf coast it's going t... AL NAOMI We can't even get in there to have a chance to look at that and see the condition of the infrastruct... AL NAOMI They did not contribute to the flooding of the city. AL NAOMI