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초록

영어

Validating the cultural centrality of questions of individuality in Sister Carrie, Dreiser highlights the key psychological concepts of the general process of social development and the individual’s self construction in the modern urban world. As he intensively visualizes new conditions of modern urban society and its cultural facts which modified in myriad ways the cognitive and desiring capacities of the individuals, Dreiser attempts to rehabilitate the idea of individualism within the context of modern urban society. Posing a significant challenge to the idea of the autonomous or intrinsic self, Dreiser illuminates a radical re-conception of the new process of identity in the modern city and the contradictions embodied in that identity, whose self-expression turns into a ceaseless succession of illusory images in the visual structure of the spectacle. This paper will analyse how Dreiser characterizes these new forms of self-construction and the new mode of existence and social intercourse in modern America, and how he demystifies the possibility for individual’s social and psychological growth and self-actualization in the capitalist urban world.

목차

I. Urban Contact and Individuality
 II. Emulation of Spectacular Identity
 III. Demystification of the Prospects for Modern Subjectivity
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키워드

저자

• Yunjin Lee [ Hankuk University of Foreign Studies ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813