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This paper examines Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy(1925) on how the sociocultural code of dress addresses the price of upward mobility and symbolizes the firmly established stratification existing in an rapidly impersonalized, capitalistic society. Clyde Griffiths’s pursuance of materialistic wealth is represented by his desire for clothes, especially those worn by the upper class. The transition from the bellboy uniform, to the “high society” costumes, and to the prison uniform effectively conveys Dreiser’s view of pessimistic and materialistic determinism. Clyde pursues the illusion of gaining wealth and entry into the high class by wearing fancy dresses that cannot represent his true self. He turns Roberta into a victim of his ambition, and he himself dies, wearing a prison uniform, as a victim of deterministic social mechanism. The code of dress conveys Clyde Griffiths’s private and public spheres, which in this novel are each represented by his desire and society.

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abstract
 I. 서 론
 II. 의상에 나타난 욕망의 코드
 III. 제복이 지닌 집단적 억압 장치의 의미
 IV. 나가는 말
 인 용 문 헌

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• 손태수 [ Sohn, Tae-soo | 성균관대학교(Sungkyunkwan University) ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820