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The Capitalistic in Paul Auster's Leviathan: A Cultural Materialist Reading Seyed Hadi Momen; Fatemeh Karegar Bardaskan; Mehran Shabankhah Leayli
Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2023): Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education, May
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33258/birle.v6i2.7570

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The aim of the present research is to unveil how capitalism reading can be perceived by a Cultural Materialist Reading in the selected novel Leviathan. Paul Auster is one of those writers who is always multitasking. His stories are never about just one thing, and you can never be sure what's going on behind the scenes until you turn the last page. To put in other words, while a literary work may serve to practice the dominant ideology, it may produce a contrary dissident reading. This possibility mostly is based on the inner contradictions of any literary text. This is the common ground of cultural materialists. In Leviathan, Paul Auster has skillfully exhibited such a verbal game to represent his own concerns regarding the subject of the identity, ideology and power caught in the novels, leading to a “dissident” reading which is potentially opposed and threatening to those social oppressive norms which the protagonists “Benjamin Sachs” are suffered.
A Cultural Materialist Reading of Paul Auster: Sunset Park Seyed Hadi Momen; Fatemeh Karegar Bardaskan; Mehran Shabankhah Leayli
Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2023): Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education, May
Publisher : BIRCU

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33258/birle.v6i2.7569

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The aim of the present research is to unveil how a “dissident” reading can be perceived by a Cultural Materialist Reading in the selected novel Sunset Park. Paul Auster is one of those writers who is always multitasking. His stories are never about just one thing, and you can never be sure what's going on behind the scenes until you turn the last page.   In fact, the novel entails some clashes serve to conceptualize the term “dissidence” as observed in the approach of cultural materialism. Cultural materialists argue that literature does not reflect only one cultural formation and is able to entreat other ideologies and subcultures.. In Sunset Park, Paul Auster has skillfully exhibited such a verbal game to represent his own concerns regarding the subject of the identity, ideology and power caught in the novels, leading to a “dissident” reading which is potentially opposed and threatening to those social oppressive norms which the protagonists are suffered.  Indeed, by investigating selected novel in details to find out how the cultural materialism notions can be applied to them, this research demonstrated that cultural materialism concepts are applicable to the characters and contents of selected novel.