Deconstruction, literary studies:
Deconstruction is a method of literary analysis with roots in the work of philosopher Jacques Derrida. According to Wikipedia, “This article has multiple issues.”
Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself.
– J. Hillis Miller, “Stevens’ Rock and Criticism as Cure”
A deconstruction involves the demonstration that a hierarchical opposition, in which one term is said to be dependent upon another conceived as prior, is in fact a rhetorical or metaphysical imposition and that the hierarchy could well be reversed.
– Jonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs