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This study aims to analyze the text of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia as a pseudo-self-help book by examining the novel’s parody, narrative, and a love story which converge on the criticism of capitalism. The plot develops in parody, the form of a pseudo-self-help book, resulting in irony by the contradiction between the form and the story. The parody and irony ultimately criticize the circumstances from which self-help books were born, which are the economic instability and the capitalism/new-liberalism. The narrator intentionally induces the readers to be conscious of the novel’s being a pseudo-self-help book while the address “you” forces them to identify themselves with the protagonist in the text. The readers recognize this novel’s pretence of a self-help book, and in turn, disillusion themselves from being immersed in the text. These recognition and disillusion repeat from the beginning to the end of the novel. Through this repetition, the readers experience the parody and irony in the status of the protagonist. Regarding a love story, the novel focuses on a couple who are eager to get filthy rich. “You” and “a pretty girl” remain to be theoretical objects of love to each other because they place the material success on their priority in life. This love story represents the individuals’ desire to be rich under the influence of capitalism/neo-liberalism.

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Abstract
 I. 서론
 II. 자기계발서 패러디와 아이러니
 III. 가짜 자기계발서로의 몰입
 IV. 더럽게 부자가 되고 싶었던 이들의 관념적 사랑이야기
 V. 결론
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• 이관수 [ Lee, Kwansoo | 군산간호대학교 ]

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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