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This article studies the aspects of social absurdities in American novels of the early 20th century, in relation with capitalism and its effects on human nature as degeneration by the distorted desire, as violence for their result, and as madness that resists against the capitalist-leading culture. American dream of success is a kind of optimistic value, but in the society where systemized capitalism exists, it also effects the lives and the minds of the individuals. People in this system naively bows to it, but in their minds there also exists a sort of conflict between the inner nature like desire and the oppressive system of capitalism. So the aim of this article is to find out their traces from the beginning of the 20th century, the era when the American capitalist culture began in earnest, and their aspects of transformations in the place where all the capitalist rendezvous meet. In Frank Norris’ McTeague we may find the aspects of conflicts between the distorted desire for success and their instinctive brute within, and the negative aspects of excessive desire for the material sense, which is the basic form of capitalism, resulting in its bursting out as a violent murder. In Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust, we may find the ungrounded desire in the systemized capitalist culture, Hollywood. characters in this work search for their way of success, but they are frustrated in the horrible emptiness of massive, systemized capitalist culture, and it bursts out in a form of massive madness and riot in the central place of systemized materialist culture.

목차

I. 들어가는 말
 II. 자본과 원시성, 그리고 폭력 : 『맥티그』
 III. 문화자본에 예속된 내재적 욕망과 폭력 : 『메뚜기의 하루』
 IV. 나가는 말
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저자

• 박용준 [ Yongjun Park | 상지대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810