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...same way that critics of de Man's scholarship found support for their skepticism in the deconstructionist's early writings, Wiener and other scholars say that the allegations about Parsons may fuel the fires of an academic--as well as a political--debate about Parsons' life and work...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Do Scholars Lives Affect Their Scholarship? | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

...attempting to explain the shift towards literature within Afro-American studies, scholars focus on three areas: the increasing complexity of the political issues surrounding Black Americans, the theoretical sophistication offered by feminist and deconstructionist approaches to literature and changes in the composition of academia...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Literary Scholars Remake Black Studies | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...done the central show in the Italian pavilion in the public gardens, and sampled all the national pavilions from the U.S.'s to Yugoslavia's, and sated whatever appetite you may have for the installation pieces of Aperto 88, the section for artists under 40 that stretches like a deconstructionist via crucis through the long Piranesian gloom of the rope walk at the Arsenal, you can go back to the museums and immerse yourself in the Venetian past, an experience that tends to put some of the achievements of late or postmodernism in perspective. Moreover, it takes you away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Venice Biennale Bounces Back | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...first of six lectures on "Poetry and Belief," leading literary deconstructionist Harold Bloom said the prophets of the Hebrew Bible were influenced by one another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bloom Gives Norton Lecture, Targets Biblical Copy-Cats | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

Fast-food architecture is coming full circle too. Two years ago, outside Chicago, the deconstructionist New York firm SITE built a sublime McDonald's. The basic kit of pieces was standard, but SITE made the whole restaurant seem to hover: brick walls are cantilevered up off the ground, the roof floats above the walls. Decadent, maybe, but delightful too. In heartland suburbia, the highest of high camp has thus been achieved. When kitsch icons like McDonald's come with their own built-in ironic critique, an epoch must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Legacy of the Golden Arches | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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