A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.