Yale School
IPA: / ˈjeɪl ˈskuːl /
Plurale: Yale Schools
Group of literary critics, based at Yale University, Connecticut, US, who applied the deconstructionist approach of group member Jacques Derrida to literary theory. They tried to show the impossibility of a text possessing a coherent meaning by highlighting its internal contradictions and by denying the relevance of any reference to external reality or to the author's intentions.