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  • 标题:Bourdieusian Reading of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money
  • 作者:Pegah Marandi ; Alireza Anushiravani
  • 期刊名称:English Language and Literature Studies
  • 印刷版ISSN:1925-4768
  • 电子版ISSN:1925-4776
  • 出版年度:2015
  • 卷号:5
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:21
  • DOI:10.5539/ells.v5n4p21
  • 出版社:Canadian Center of Science and Education
  • 摘要:

    Caryl Churchill is one of the most widely performed female dramatists in contemporary British theatre. She is arguably the most successful and best-known socialist-feminist playwright to have merged from Second Wave feminism. Her plays have been performed all over the world. In her materialist plays, she shows the matters of culture, education, power, politics, and myth. Her oeuvre hovers over the material conditions which testify to the power relations within society at a given time in history. Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, and theorist in cultural studies points out the dynamics of power relations in social life throughout ideas such as capital, field, habitus, symbolic violence, theories concerned with class and culture. The overarching concern for the purpose of this essay is to analyse Churchill’s Serious Money (1987) in the light of Bourdieu’s sociological concepts. In accordance with Bourdieu, there exist various kinds of capital (cultural, economic, social, and symbolic) which distinguish every individual’s status both in society and in relation to other individuals. The present study attempts to show that in Serious Money, the capital especially economic capital forms the foundation of social life and dictates one’s position within the social order and respectively, determining the power discourse in the matrix of social life.

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