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philosophical and critical movement, starting in the 1960s and esp. applied to the study of literature, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or ide

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  • Well .. its great to deconstruct thanksgiving, but how deconstructive is satire when it still is based on stereotypes of casinos and the like? mood: apathetic
  • They're all pretty respectful of the basic superhero premise--none are "deconstructive" or go for camp.
  • I like not knowing much about classical music because it means I'm not left in the kind of deconstructive mess I usually find myself with films.
  • They're all pretty respectful of the basic superhero premise -- none are "deconstructive" or go for camp.
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