Wolff, Tobias - Colm J. Kelly (essay date March 1999)
Colm J. Kelly (essay date March 1999)
SOURCE: Kelly, Colm J. “Affirming the Indeterminable: Deconstruction, Sociology, and Tobias Wolff's ‘Say Yes’.” Mosaic 32, no. 1 (March 1999): 149-66.
[In the following essay, Kelly uses Wolff's short story “Say Yes” to help delineate the nature of a deconstructive approach to literature, as opposed to a sociological-contextualist one.]
Addressing the current emphasis on broadly sociological-contextualist approaches to literature, this essay uses Tobias Wolff's short story “Say Yes” to explore the viability of three possible interpretations and attempts to delineate the nature of a deconstructive approach.
Deconstruction in literary studies is now frequently understood to be a type of formalism in contrast to approaches such as new historicism and cultural studies, which give renewed emphases to the various contexts of literary...
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