Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education Journal (Birle Journal)
Vol 6, No 2 (2023): Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education, May

The Capitalistic in Paul Auster's Leviathan: A Cultural Materialist Reading

Seyed Hadi Momen (Universitas Negeri Medan)
Fatemeh Karegar Bardaskan (Unknown)
Mehran Shabankhah Leayli (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Apr 2023

Abstract

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.

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birle

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Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

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Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE-Journal) is a peer reviewed journal published in February, May, August, November welcome research paper in language, linguistics, oral tradition, literature, arts, education and other related fields which is published in ...