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'The Critic As Host' was presented by J.H. Miller as a reply to M.H. Abram's allegations in his essay 'Rationality and Human Imagination in Cultural History'  that the Deconstructionist reading is parasitical and if applied, it would make, History an impossibility. In the opening paragraph of 'The Critic as Host', Miller quotes M.H. Abrams : "The 'deconstructionist' reading of a given work 'is plainly and simply parasitical' on 'the obvious or univocal reading'.".  The first part of this quote is not that of Abrams, but he has cited it from Wayne Booth. Miller points out that what has happened here is a citation of a citation. He also poses the question that whether this citation itself can be considered as a Parasite in the body of the text, which is the host. The host would be feeding the parasite and there are also possibilities of the parasite killing the host.  Abrams' allegation that Deconstructionist reading...

Academicians in the west have started talking about the death of Postmodernism and what after,  long back. As with all other western theories, it ll take sometime for them to reach our parts of the country and be the most often referred topic of the Doctoral Thesis. In India can we anticipate the rise of postmodernism or is it already here? Browsing through the net, one can find a couple of articles on pomo (hereafter ll be referred so) from the research scholars of India . Some of them ve probed into the roots of pomo here... Can pomo shake the Indian scenario as it did with the western world?? No b'cos Indians are postmodernists since ages. Never ve we believed in univocal truths, we never had 'author gods', our metanarratives were made of 'micro narratives'.. The things which i may be referring here can sound as clichés to many.. But here in the context of pomo those features sounds amazing. 1) No univocal truths : ...