Reconstructing Deconstruction

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Well, those of us in the know, theory-wise, are already way past deconstruction. After all, 
when TV Guide gets hip, it's time to move on, or is it?  Anyway,  current big names on 
the litcrit banquet circuit are all into Repo-struction, but don't ask me to explain it!
john m
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>Alan Westrope notes:
>"ReDepp: designer Issac Mizrahi sez, "If anyone gets the whole deconstructive
>thing, it's Johnny Depp."  Hmmmm...is Depp to be published in PMLA?  Will
>he apply deconstructionist acting methods to his HST portrayal?
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>Other gems: TV Guide blurb for a cable TV special, The Burger & The King:
>"Presley's tragic diet is deconstructed."
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>Boston Globe explains Lamar Alexander's "deconstructionist approach to
>federal government."
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>NY Times reviews a cookbook that "deconstructs 50 classic pies."
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>Norfolk, VA paper writes that a boxer "deconstructs professional fighters
>the way a 4-year-old deconstructs a bowlful of cholocate ice cream.""
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>And there's Jane Smiley's MOO, which not only has a governor who hates the
>state university because "It's full of Deconstructionists," but has a
>chapter on the demolition of a building, titled, inevitably, "Deconstruction."
>But I won't tell you what happens when the Deconstruction proceeds.
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>In fact, consider this entire post "sous erasure."
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>But aren't they all!
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>Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
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