Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and
decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.
States regularized their own interactions within the framework of diplomatic treaties, international organizations, or norms and standards of behavior, but he
decenters the state for this study.
I propose that the play
decenters both its melodramatic romance and political "thesis" to exceed the limits of gender and genre.
highlights four key moments that marked the lives of these "saints." First, each enters a "wild space" marked out by a voluntary poverty that
decenters "normality." Second, such a space opens to real attentiveness to the other, including the planet, beyond our normal blinkers.
This is an exciting book that
decenters the human organism from the psychoanalytic theory of mind whilst making the findings of ethology relevant to human self-understanding.
Indeed, Soyinka (1988) in such appropriately and provocatively titled essays as "The critic and society: Barthes, leftocracy and other mythologies" and "The autistic hunt; or how to Marximize mediocrity" has, in this matter, posed the ultimate interrogation to the critic: the interpreter or theorist who
decenters the writer and artist from his culture or from the historical process, does he or she extend the displacement or decentering to him or herself?
Recognizing the challenge students face when first encountering this difficult text--how little they feel they know as they try to make sense of it--Smart
decenters his authority as professor and enlists students self-consciously in the production of their own knowledge of the novel.
This dialectical, theological symbiosis illustrates the ongoing formation of a multiple and often contradictory Jewish subjectivity that reflects the postmodern portrayal of identity as being nonessentialistic, dynamic, and constructed over against an "Other." This notion of identity construction radically
decenters the modern, autonomous self by shifting the locus of subjectivity from the self to the Other.
Smiley disrupts and
decenters discourses that position the father's perspective as the focus of history.
This question defines what is at stake in the feature of the poem that is most often cited by critics like Perloff who ascribe a paradigmatic status to Gunslinger--that is, the way Dorn's poem notoriously
decenters its own first-person voice.
Finally, in a discussion that
decenters the dominant patriarchal response to the convention's uses, she considers its association with violent sexual assaults often motivated by revenge in the plays.