D.H Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930) and Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude (1928): A Cultural Interpretation.
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2019
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
This research paper aims at analyzing and discussing the three notions of ‘dominant,
residual and emergent’ culture within the society and how these ideologies change over
time, by relying on the works of Raymond Williams. We have shown how Williams
established a hegemonic interrelation between these three cultural concepts. From this
theoretical perspective, we have analyzed the characters which are presented in both D.H
Lawrence’s novel The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930) and Eugene O’Neill’s play Strange
Interlude (1928) and their closeness to the different types of individuals presented by
Williams in his theory "Individuals and Societies" from his book The Long Revolution
(1961) where he classifies the individuals into six types. The main purpose of this
dissertation is to explain the different types of culture and the classification of individuals
introduced by Williams, and to analyze how individuals influenced by their society in
which they live and the conflict between them and their society. It has been demonstrated
that characters in both works correspond to the different types of individuals as explained
by Williams. This dissertation is divided into two main chapters. The first chapter
discusses the three notions of culture and their relationship to D.H Lawrence’s novel and
Eugene O’Neill’s play. The second chapter deals with the analysis of the characters of the
two literary works relaying on Raymond William’s theory.
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30cm ; 49p.
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Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches