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Students are invited to post comments and/or questions here relating to Literary Theory. Our first topic is Professor Greenblatt's theory of self-fashioning as it relates to the Renaissance or any of the texts you have read. His ideas relate to power, social status, gender and identity as social constructs.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Akshay the test is working
ReplyDeleteRecently, I read up on "CULTURAL MATERIALISM". It is a theory that draws many parallels to Greenblatt's New Historicism.
ReplyDeleteAs per Cultural Materialism, every era is dominated by three major cultural influences -
1. The Residual Culture - In Doll's House, this could be the age old idea that women must play there traditional roles of housewives and mothers and be submissive to men.
2. The Emergent Culture - In Dolls House, I identified that the burgeoning of the educated middle class was an emergent culture in the late 19th century.
3. The Oppositional Culture: In Doll's House, the liberation of Nora from her traditional role and escape from the structured and highly constructed setting represents the oppositional culture of the time
Any thought?
Secondly, while reading Freakonomics, the author Steven Levitt describes three main incentives for every human action. They are;
ReplyDeleteMoral Incentives, Economic Incentives and Social Incentives.
This theory can be applied to the characters of A Dolls House.
We see a strong economic and social incentive influencing Krogstad, whose moral compass isn't exactly in the right direction.
Further Torvald is seen to be influenced majorly by a social incentives. Evidence- he is highly bothered about the appearance of his household and "perfect family life". This tends to lead him to be ignorant about the actuality of the circumstances in his failing marriage.