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| Nick: |
Smallbottle (Registered User) |
| Date/Time: |
Mon, 11/17/2003 at 20:32 EDT |
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I <Curious> [11/17/2003 @ 17:07] (3/4)
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Two key points!! First, |
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deconstructionist critics -- like any of the "ist" critics you mention -- can
come up with amazingly insightful and unexpected analyses. I once attended a
lecture on the Basil Rathbone version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" during
which the Deconstructionist speaker noted the striking parallels between Holmes
and the criminal. I've never watched the movie the same way since. Critical
frameworks are very powerful tools, regardless of whether the theoretical
underpinnings are correct or not.
Second, though, Tolkien's outlook was as anti-deconstructionist as one could
possibly be. (Since he left academia too early to actually take part in the
debates, perhaps he was a proto-anti-deconstructionist.)
In the academic strugle between "lit." and "lang.", Tolkien took an extreme
"lang." position. For him, words themselves held intrinsic power and meaning;
so much meaning that a reader could perceive the hidden referent of a word
without even knowing its roots, or that an author could construct an entire
world in the effort to understand them. By contrast, deconstructionist are at
the far end of the "lit." scale. At the highest level of analysis,
deconstructionism leaves us with nothing but a void, filled not with meaning
but only with "the booming voice of language talking to
itself."
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