SSH 205 Lecture 3: SSH 205 - Lecture 3 - Interpretations and Three Story Thesis
20 Sep 2016
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Ssh 205 - lecture 3 chapter 3: interpretations: we ask so what? as a prompt, explain the significance after your argument in the thesis or after a main point/ sub argument. It helps link the evidence with the point being made: is there a correct meaning or interpretation? no, valid interpretation, reasoned from sufficient evidence, based on observations, it is logical, must make sense to peers, not just yourself. Interpretations are culturally relative so some connections won"t exist for other people: signifier: a term or designation for a concept. Home is a signifier but it will signify different imagery for someone from antarctica versus someone from kenya: art for art"s sake. oscar wilde. Argued it"s not political, that it"s just art. Art is developed in a cultural context, so it will reflect it"s time. People create their own interpretations: seems to be about x", but it"s really about y" .
