Deconstructive rewritings are re-visions. This monograph engages in tandem with two of its re-visions, Michel Tournier’s and J. M. Coetzee’s , from the perspective of the Enlightenment ideology. Basing the argument upon the assumption that is a myth of the Enlightenment ideology representing the master narrative of the Enlightenment discourse, the book examines how the major ideological themes of the Enlightenment master narrative as manifested through the myth of are rearticulated in and . It dismantles how these two re-visions, through deconstructive freeplay, question and more importantly deconstruct the basic premises and principles, or the concepts that enjoy the full presence of an absolute signified in the myth of . Thus these re-visions not only transform the logocentric repressive structure in Defoe’s text into open-ended and dialogic discourses, they also partly constitute a chain of différance in signifying the myth of . The author desires to generate large-scale understandings from small-scale insights through this research.weiterlesen