Deconstruction

Deconstruction: Some Assumptions
Essay by John Lye.
Deconstructionist Theory
An essay extracted from The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.
Gayatri Spivak
From the Stanford University Presidental lectures series, an introduction to the work, and links to other resources.
Jacques Derrida
Stanford University website contains overviews of Derrida and deconstruction, and includes a bibliography, excerpts, and links to interviews.

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