해체 비평 연구 = A Study of Deconstructive Criticism

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Among new literary theories and critical methods which have multiplied from the sixties, Deconstructionism or Deconstructive Criticism is sharply attacking the critical hegemony of New Criticism. New Criticism, which was formed by the conservative ideology of liberal humanism, has been gradually displaced by new modes of critical practice from the sixties when liberal humanism itself became doubtful.
The limits of New Criticism lies in its reification of literature. In other words, New Criticism regards a literary text as an autonomous artifact devoid of concrete social context and prefers meaning(signified) to language(signifier). Deconstructive Criticism based on Jacques Derrida's "metaphysics of absence" denies reification or mystification of literature.
According to Derrida, the tradition of Western way of thought has been based on the premise that language is subservient to the outside referent. He denied this logocentrism and made a new term, "difference" in order to mean both "to differ" and "to defer".
Influenced by Derrida's view of language, so-called Yale school composed of his
followers, such as Paul de Man, J.Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman and Harold Bloom, is preoccupied with the epistemology of poetic language. Deconstructive Criticism of Yale school reduces poetic language that has been regarded as the product of individual genius to the result of the grammatical pattern.
Even though its self-reflexive attitude toward language is radical, Deconstructive Criticism also has the limits in that it reduces the problem of historical realities to the problem of everyday language we use.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. 데리다의 해체주의
• Ⅲ. 신비평과 해체비평
• Ⅳ. 해체비평적 방법
• Ⅴ. 결 론