dc.rights.license | In Copyright | en_US |
dc.creator | Struebing, Jake Elijah | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-28T12:19:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-01T08:59:05Z | |
dc.date.created | 2014 | |
dc.identifier | WLURG38_Struebing_ENGL_2014 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11021/27336 | |
dc.description | Thesis; [FULL-TEXT RESTRICTED TO WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY LOGIN] | en_US |
dc.description | Jake Elijah Struebing is a member of the Class of 2014 of Washington and Lee University. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | As a student of literary theory, I am fascinated by how literature explores and elucidates ideology and its concomitant social and cultural impact in the real world—a sort of meta-ideology. With a background in poverty and human capability studies, I am particularly interested in ideological change that substantiates social justice and rectifies morally arbitrary inequality. . . .can a novel tangibly inform and empower real-world change? Can literature convey conscience, a feeling of ethical obligation to do justice in the name of equality and liberty? Can this conscience, in turn, actually lead to justice?
I answer these questions in the affirmative and, in doing so, offer a theory that will hopefully fill a void in the way we qualitatively assess the social impact of novels. The theory—what I term the politics of poverty—attempts to show how conceptual understandings of conscience in literature lead to real-world manifestations of justice, alleviating hardship and oppression. This thesis examines Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838) and Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) using this theoretical framework. . . . [From Introduction] | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 83 pages | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
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dc.subject.other | Washington and Lee University -- Honors in English | en_US |
dc.title | The Politics of Poverty: Conscience and Justice in the Modern Novel (thesis) | en_US |
dc.type | Text | en_US |
dcterms.isPartOf | RG38 - Student Papers | |
dc.rights.holder | Struebing, Jake Elijah | |
dc.subject.fast | Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 | en_US |
dc.subject.fast | Oliver Twist (Dickens, Charles) | en_US |
dc.subject.fast | Poverty in literature | en_US |
dc.subject.fast | Social justice in literature | en_US |
dc.subject.fast | Postmodernism (Literature) | en_US |
local.department | English | en_US |
local.scholarshiptype | Honors Thesis | en_US |