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Which one of the following assumptions best expresses the position of Post-Structuralist criticism?

The correct answer is

Apprehension of reality is a construct.

Post-structuralist criticism treats our apprehension of reality as mediated and constructed through language, discourse and social relations. It questions the idea that language transparently represents a stable reality or that meaning rests on fixed underlying structures.

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