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Lois TysonCritical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
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Use deconstructive analysis to identify the ideological project of Critical Theory Today as well as how it undermines that project (i.e., by reproducing the ideological structures it critiques).
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Select a work of literature with which you are familiar. What questions would you ask about the work? Which form of theory would best illuminate aspects of the text that you are interested in? How and why?
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Compare and contrast structuralism and deconstructivism. To what extent do they share theoretical foundations? To what extent do they differ?
