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Statement I: The poststructuralists’ genre critics suggest that the way to ‘de-essentialize” genre is to re-cast it in terms of discourse.
Statement II: But while the poststructuralist move toward dialectical exchange and ideology is both useful and necessary, conceiving of genre primarily in terms of discourse reveals certain limitations that are intrinsic to poststructuralism’s basic approach to discourse and to the relationship envisioned between discourse and subjectivity.
1. Both Statement | and Statement Il are true.
2. Both Statement | and Statement Il are false.
3. Statement | is true but Statement Il is false.
4. Statement | is false but Statement Il is true.
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Statement I claims poststructuralists suggest de-essentializing genre via discourse. This is false; poststructuralist genre critics (e.g., Derrida) reject fixed genres altogether, not recasting them as discourse.
Statement II assumes the poststructuralist 'move toward discourse' is useful but limited. This is false as no such discourse-based recasting occurs.
Both statements misrepresent poststructuralism, making option 2 correct.
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