Meaning of disjointure | Babel Free

Definitions

An instance or state of being disjoint; separation.

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Examples

“With Henry's divorce and the creation of an autonomous Church of England, Italian intercourse with England entered into a period of disjointure that would continue, except for a brief revival under Mary, .through the end of Elizabeth's reign.”

“To distinguish between the two opposing possibilities of this disjointure, or disjunction – between 'injustice' and the opening to the other – a deconstructive move becomes necessary.”

“Theodor Adorno argued that what a given poem seems to say in a literal sense is often contradicted by its formal disjointures, by what he called a poem's parataxis, and that its truth content must be seen as illusory in a special sense.”

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