Word: deconstructionist
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...Claytons, Wadleighs and the Muellers--who soon enter the picture--are the reigning academics at Wayward Community College, a two-year women's school in southern New Hampshire. Alf hates Brent Meuller, a literary deconstructionist, whom Alf finds "contentious, dismissive, cocky, and a great hit with the students; he played to them with a televisable glibness and catered to their blank, TV-scoured brains by dismissing on their behalf the full canon of Western masterpieces, every one of them (except Wuthering Heights and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass) a relic of centuries of white male oppression, to be touched...
...most clearly indicates the confusion that the program notes try to mask as a sophisticated eclecticism. The deconstructionist hodgepodge of arched and beams is neither especially effective nor lovely to look at. Furthermore, the disquietingly oblique references to "the architecture of I.M. Pei, the collections at the Louvre, two thousand years of Western religious tradition, Ptolomy's [sic] astrological maps, the sculpture of Noguchi..." disperse the attention and cannot make up for the producers' failure to face the opera and its performance tradition, making an informed (never mind inspired) reading...
...then, in that department we have our own way of labeling literary history--Middle English, Renaissance, Classicist, Romantic, Modernist, Post-Modernist, Neo-Classicist, Formalist, Structural, Post-Structural, Deconstructionist, Post-Literal, Post-Lingual. And we think that television is killing books...
...Hollywood hothouse and blossom, it would be Jodie Foster. And indeed she considers when she was 18 to 24, "the years I went off to college and had a life." She armored herself in friends, cocooned herself in the anonymity of a newly plump figure, tangled with the deconstructionist teachers in her comp-lit classes at Yale...
...audience members to "come and go as they please." Nash, who sees himself as a "proselytizer" on O'Brien's behalf, said he hoped to draw attention to the greatness of this often-overlooked author. According to Nash, O'Brien "took the novel apart at its seams when [deconstructionist philosopher Jacques] Derrida was still in his nappies...