This document discusses post-structuralism and provides examples of its application. It begins by defining post-structuralism as studying how knowledge is produced and critiquing structuralist assumptions, arguing that history and culture influence interpretations. It notes post-structuralism is less defined as a single movement than structuralism. The document then gives two literary examples - a poem about a black rose questioning social perceptions, and a poem using an ocean metaphor for a family - to demonstrate post-structuralist analysis focusing on reader interpretation over authorial intent.

1. TRINIDAD, LUZ CLARITA, M.
BSED-IV English
Literary Criticism
Dr. Vilma Esparrago

2. Give your own meaning to the
given pictures. One word only.
Raise your left hand if you have
an idea. Your points depends on
how many words you will give.

10. What is POST-STRUCTURALISM?
Post-structuralism offers a way of
studying how knowledge is produced
and critiques structuralist premises. It
argues that because history and culture
condition the study of underlying
structures, both are subject to biases
and misinterpretations.

11. A post-structuralist approach
argues that to understand an object
(e.g., a text), it is necessary to
study both the object itself and the
systems of knowledge that
produced the object.

12. Poststructuralism is less
singularly defined as a movement
than is structuralism. A number of
literary theories fall under the
larger umbrella of
poststructuralism, including the
reader-response criticism.

13. Poststructuralism evolved
alongside French philosopher
Jacques Derrida’s theory
of deconstruction, which
emphasized this concept of
unstable, unfixed meaning as
it functioned in language.

14. LC’s thought…..
Poststructuralism has something
to do with the reader’s response
criticism. It is more likely the
understanding of the reader to the
text. It has also something to do
with the deconstructive criticism.

15. To further explain LC’s thought……
POST-STRUCTURALISM is closely
related to reader’s response criticism and
deconstructive criticism whereas reader’s
culture and society plays just as much as
a role in interpretation as the author’s.
Meaning, post-structuralism criticism is
also a reader centered theories of
meaning.

16. THEORY OF POST-
STRUCTURALISM

17. Post-structuralist philosophers like
Derrida and Foucault did not form a
self-conscious group, but each
responded to the traditions
of phenomenology and structuralism.

18. Structuralism rejected the
phenomenological idea that
knowledge could be centered on the
human knower, and sought what they
considered a more secure foundation
for knowledge.

19. Post-structuralism rejects the notion of the essential
quality of the dominant relation in the hierarchy,
choosing rather to expose these relations and the
dependency of the dominant term on its apparently
subservient counterpart. The only way to properly
understand these meanings is to deconstruct the
assumptions and knowledge systems that produce
multiplicity, the illusion of singular meaning.

20. POST-
STRUCTURALISM
BY JACQUES
DERRIDA

22. Derrida rejects all of metaphysical history
with its hierarchies and dichotomies that
have survived to this day, the foundation
upon which all of logic (logos, which means
language) was laid. Derrida has rejected
structuralism, and as a result, the
Saussurean schema (the signifier/signified
relationship) has been rethought.

27. ACTIVITY AND EXAMPLES OF LITERARY PIECE

28. Rose Painted
© Paige
Published: June 2015
If I were a Rose painted black,
would you cast me aside
like blackened, burnt rice?
Would my color tarnish my sweet smell?
If I were a Rose painted black,
would the richness of my ebony petals
make me unworthy
of being called
a Rose?

29. If I were a Rose painted white,
would my ivory petals be worth
more than silver?
Would my sweet smell
captivate
a room welcomingly?
If I were just a Rose,
sweet-smelling and vibrant
and your mind was blind...
would my color matter?

30. An Ocean Of Memories
© Kimberly L. Briones
Published: February 2006
My family is the ocean around us.
My father is the hurricane,
knocking anything and everybody out of
his path.
My mother is the sunshine after the
storm (my father),
clearing and calming everything else.
My oldest brother is the sand,
kicked and blown away by my dad,
but warmed with care by my mom.

31. My oldest sister is the breeze in the
wind,
cool, quiet, and there when you need her.
My other two brothers are the stingrays,
dangerous,
but also willing to fight anyone who
comes along.
And I,
I am an old ship at the bottom of the sea,
lost, abandoned, but full of memories.

32. Are you guys ready to analyze a
piece using poststructuralism?

33. Go get
your pen
and
paper!!!

35. Your heart can only take
so much flame to accommodate
a one-time love
of fireworks. All the others love
only the ashes it leaves behind.
What’s sad is that,
after a night of lights and explosions,
the ones who start a fire in you
only get burned in the process.
(www.tumblr.com/mademoisellerika)

37. A Butterfly
© Silvia Burley
Published: July 2015
A caterpillar walks in beauty
through the sunshine and the rain
leaving sweet memories
to ease away the pain
In time her image changes
and yet her soul remains the same
returning to the heavens
from that in which she came
A butterfly of beauty
dancing upon the reef
softly whispers to me
comforts me in grief

38. Do not cry for me
together we are one
my love for you shines brighter
than the ever glowing sun
Her beauty, the brightest colors
gentle touch of love
fluttering wings casting light
shining through the clouds above
A caterpillar walked in beauty
a gentle soul was she
alas, she is now a butterfly
yet she'll always be Grandma to me.