Interpreting The Age of Innocence: Unmasking Its Deception and Hypocrisy Through Zizek’s Psychological Criticism

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10.2991/assehr.k.200316.003How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Age of Innocence, deception, unmasking, Zizek’s critical theory

Abstract

Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence displays vividly the social landscape of the upper class in Old New York and thus she is listed as a realistic writer. However, sensitive readers could recognize the characters’ artificial innocence and exquisite pretense behind the realistic depiction. This paper would reveal and unmask its deception and hypocrisy through Slavoj Zizek’s psychological criticism. The aim is to expose the purposes of Wharton’s writing — a calling for returning to the nature, the essence of reality.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dingying Wang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/19
TI  - Interpreting The Age of Innocence: Unmasking Its Deception and Hypocrisy Through Zizek’s Psychological Criticism
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 9
EP  - 12
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200316.003
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200316.003
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