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Position:Home>General - Arts & Humanities > Interpretation and Critical Theories, help?Question: Interpretation and Critical Theories, help?Hello. I'm in college and I'm taking a class called Introduction to Criticism and Theory. I need to write a final paper on one school of thought. Formalism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Semiology, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Poststructuralism, and Deconstruction are all options. I'm not trying to cheat here or anything, but I'm up in the air about which to focus on. My question is: Which do you recommend, which do you like best, which do you find the most interesting, which do you dislike the most, why? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I'm personally oriented toward semiology/semiotics. Get some Barthes and Eco in there, maybe some third-person perspective with Kaja Silverman's "Subject of Semiotics," and you'll be in good shape. I like that any artifact has a semiological component--you don't have to get weird in order to derive a semiological approach. It's just linking up perception with symbol-use/representation. I answer a lot of things in here from that perspective. Sometimes, however, people hate it--I really went off on "scrapbooking" the other day. Professors from several disciplines tend to like it, however, because it's really very pragmatic. You just have to go slow and trace the associations clearly. |