an otherwise inchoate mass of competing detail

Deconstruction, on the contrary, starts out by rigorously suspending this assumed correspondence between mind, meaning and the concept of method which claims to unite them.

It is evident, according to Barthes, that semiology must be such a meta-language

The dialogue-of-one becomes a kind of mocking catechism

This vertiginous textual movement is resisted by readers who see no connection between the 'structuralist' Barthes and the wayward, dandified discourse of his later writings.

This vertiginous textual movement is resisted by readers who see no connection between the 'structuralist' Barthes and the wayward, dandified discourse of his later writings.

some form of 'creative' escape from the exigencies of high-powered theory

the rigid territorial imperative laid down by orthodox fiat

The 'hermeneutic' tradition, on the other hand, takes account of the interpreter's puzzles and perplexities by including them within the terms of a full and generous response.

what de Man calls the 'dialectical interplay' set up between text and interpreter