Reconstructing Deconstruction

[Deng, Stephen]

Somehow, I don't think New Historicism will catch on in the mainstream like 
Deconstruction has.  After all, people won't know what to think when some 
designer says "That Ralph Fiennes really New Historicizes the big screen." 
 A good sign is that New Criticism, whose name has a similar feel, never 
made it to the popular press.  Who knows, though?

Steve Deng


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From:  MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu[SMTP:MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]
Sent:  Monday, April 21, 1997 2:53 PM
To:  pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject:  Reconstructing Deconstruction

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?
>
>Other gems: TV Guide blurb for a cable TV special, The Burger & The King:
>"Presley's tragic diet is deconstructed."
>
>Boston Globe explains Lamar Alexander's "deconstructionist approach to
>federal government."
>
>NY Times reviews a cookbook that "deconstructs 50 classic pies."
>
>Norfolk, VA paper writes that a boxer "deconstructs professional fighters
>the way a 4-year-old deconstructs a bowlful of cholocate ice cream.""
>
>
>
>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.
>
>In fact, consider this entire post "sous erasure."
>
>But aren't they all!
>
>Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
>