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Political Complex In Jelinek's Novels

Posted on:2008-10-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S S TanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215456569Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Elfriede Jelinek, a special writer in Austria literary history, gets involved the literary world by a very strong political posture. Under the social idea of the orthodox comfort and ease equanimity, Jelinek always keeps courage towards reality, the ability to make judgment of reality, and literary creations as a tool to challenge totalitarianism. As a female writer, she has a distinct political inclination and her novel is filled with pronounced political complex. The paper intends to explain its concrete reflection and her actual intention hidden behind political shadow, which implies her rejection of assimilation and the limitation of ideology.The paper studies on her novels, from which a great deal of details, including introspecting of history, concern of the time and description of sexual politic, are extracted. On the basis of analyzing these details, try to find out Jelinek's political opinions reflected form the perspective of ideology and cultural politic.Jelinek is a awful and autonomic writer, who often revolts of art form, embodying narrative innovation and defamiliarization strategy. When we investigate her political contents logic from the perspective of form, we can discover when treated alone description is various extreme and not apprehensible, but merged into an integral whole they fit together with the reality in the exterior world. This kind of reality is concealed in Jelinek's creation. Social political reality influence the textual political reality through art form, and textual political reality carry out form to reflect social political reality.We can analyze these novels with Jameson's Hermeneutics of Marxism from the perspective of political horizon, social horizon and history horizon. On the first level, the emphasis lies in explaining symbolized behavior of Jelinek's novels and the core is the achievement of individual desire. On the second level, the text may be explained as symbolized meditation about colony destiny, which exceeds individual desire. It may be exposed as ideological debate and symbolized behavior between two classes. However, neither political explanation nor social explanation is absolutely self-sufficient, so the explanation must extend further and look for latent history latitude to prop up them in the history horizon.Above all, the analysis of Jelinek's political complex eventually finds its basis in real history field. Only in this sense, her novel creation can show its real value as a social activity.
Keywords/Search Tags:political complex, art form, political horizon, social horizon, history horizon
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