Structuralism

The structuralist would argue that while playboy refers to the women featured as "models" and considers itself to be a "gentleman's" magazine, what the magazine actually does is appeal to man's most primitive and lustful craving: female flesh.

 

"Structuralist literary criticism tends to emphasise the system of conventions which makes literature possible and to attach little importance to authorial or historical considerations or to questions of meaning or reference.”

K.M. Newton

 

This passage echoes the structuralist idea that places emphasis on what the text "does" versus what it actually "says." Just like its name sake, the most important aspect to the structualist is a works structure.

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