decentring BrE
decentering AmE

This is what is meant by the ' decentring of the subject' in structuralist theory.

(The consequences of this decentring of the subject are most fully and interestingly developed in the post-structuralist work of Lacan and Derrida.)

Such interjections are clearly ironic as they are likely to be those of the 'trained'nouveau roman reader who has come to regard the decentring of the author as paradigmatic of contemporary experimental fiction.

The decentring of the author as the source and guarantee of his/her discourse, and the increasing preoccupation with the operation of intertextuality in the novel could be demonstrated to be reflected in the work of the nouveaux romanciers.

In his first book, Dollimore argues that the humanist critical tradition has distorted for modern readers the actual radical function of Early Modern English drama, which had to do with 'a critique of ideology, the demystification of political and power relations and the decentring of "man"' (4).

Derrida interpreted this event as a "decentering" of the former intellectual cosmos.

The emphasis of his work in literary theory is opposition to postmodern decentering of the author.

Decentering of the subject: Occurs when a brand personifies the product or service being marketed.

What characterizes the main theoretical developments in the last 50 years has been a decentering of the importance of the Oedipus complex.

Gutai: Decentering Modernism.

For those of us who toil in the "creative" sector of the movie business, this decentering of trade routes is both an opportunity and a danger.

The Decentering of Second Wave Feminism and the Rise of the Third Wave.

(1992), "Theorizing Anti-Racist Education: Decentering White Supremacy in Education."

This led continental thought away from humanism, and toward what was termed the decentering of man: language is no longer spoken by man to express a true inner self, but language speaks man.

Spivak highlights how Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault confine the decentering of the subject to the subject of the West, which problematizes the non-Western other as real and knowable.

The first is the work of Feffer and Feffer and Gourevitch, which related role taking ability to Piaget's theory of social decentering and developed a projective test to assess children's ability to decenter as they mature.

Because of the indeterminacy of its genre affiliation, because of its decentering of the masterful human subject who acts as a confident narrator, Mirbeau's novel shows how completely he had broken with the conventions of realist fiction.

The report stated "The controversy of Mann's methods lies in that the proxies are centered on the mean of the period 1902-1995, rather than on the whole time period", and the net effect of this decentering was to produce a "hockey stick" shape.

In this regard, the museum will contribute, at least briefly, to what might be called the de-Manhattanization of New York City - the geographical decentering and psychological expansion into the outer boroughs that is changing the city and, with it, the art world.

As Claire Keyes notes in the entry on Finch in Scribner's American Writers, "A strong current in her work is the decentering of the self, a theme which stems from her deep connection with the natural world and her perception of the self as part of nature."