For some years in academia the terms “deconstruction” and “theory”, the brainchildren of Derrida, Foucault, Horkheimer, Adorno, Althusser, Gramsci and others who regard literature’s role primarily as an agent of Marxian societal change, have enjoyed pride of place, or ideological hegemony, and been the staple diet of students in university English faculties throughout Australia and elsewhere. Brave new schools. The New Left’s capture of curriculum is a…