Deconstruction is the critical theory of breaking down a literary
piece, such as a poem, through its words. Because words have no single
meaning and link back to other words so too does the literary piece
have no single meaning. Also under consideration is the distance
between the signifier, the word, and the signified, the object the word
represents. Language is faulty and metaphorical due to this gap.
In deconstruction there is no "outside the text" and no authorial intent.
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