Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex": A Deconstructive Study

Autor/inn/en	Akhter, Javed; Muhammad, Khair; Naz, Naila
Titel	Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex": A Deconstructive Study
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 6 (2015) 5, S.9-15 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Classical Literature; Literature Appreciation; Philosophy; Literary Criticism; Postmodernism; Theater Arts; Language Usage; Semiotics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Classical philology; Literature; Altphilologie; literatur; Literarische Wertung; Philosophie; Literaturkritik; Postmoderne; Theaterwissenschaft; Sprachgebrauch; Semiotik
Abstract	Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) is the most prominent figure in contemporary philosophical and literary debate. He originates a trend-breaking theory of deconstruction. He opines the persistence in west European philosophical tradition of what he labels is logocentric metaphysics of presence. He argues that the different theories of philosophy, from Plato until structuralism are versions of a single or authoritative system. Though we cannot hope to escape this system we can at least identify the conditions of thought it imposes by attending to that which it seek to impress. Derridean deconstruction may present a new perspective to Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex", which has always been a research target for world researchers. The researchers studied it from different angles, but the present study tries to reveal different facets of the play on Derridean deconstructive bedrock. Applying Derrida's deconstruction to the text of the play, the study tries to present it in a new and innovative way. The study will discuss how Western logocentric tradition of the metaphysics of presence and its compelling repercussions ground human thought in stable and pre-determined meaning. In its concluding mode, the study analyses preventive stumbling aporic blocks of fossilized logocentric structure of the minds of characters in the play. (As Provided).
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