Structuralists explore signification with respect to underlying structural patterns (langue) and sees it as stable, finite and fixed. Poststructuralists reject the structuralist's notion of fixity and absolutism of meaning. They explored the metaphorical, ideological, contextual and intertextual aspects of language which opens up signification process for multiplicity and polysemy. Paul de Man belongs to the Yale School of Deconstructionists. He explored the aphoric nature of language due to the appendage of figurative and ideological values on the underlying true values of language. The present paper attempts to explore Paul de Man's views on allegoric and aphoric nature of language that creates the scope of misreading.
Research Scholar, Dept. of English, Banasthali Vidyapeeth University, Banasthali (Rajasthan)
