Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020)

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

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Dingying Wang
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Dingying Wang
Available Online 19 March 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200316.003How to use a DOI?
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
19 March 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-931-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200316.003How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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