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The Author's Worid View of Women in the Novel Burial Rites By Hannah Kent: A Genetic Structural Analysis
This research aims at analyzing the writer”s world view of women in the novel Burial Rites by Hannah Kent based on Goldmann's Genetic Structuralism theory. This research uses gualitative method to reveal the world view of Hannah Kent about women. Descriptive gualitative research is used in order to analyze certain principal attachment between the primary and secondary data. The primary data is the Novel Burial Rites. Meanwhile, the secondary data are other sources that have relation to the primary data. They are consists of several previous studies related to the primary data: the sociological history of Icelandic, and the socio-background of Hannah Kent. The result of this research shows that Burial Rites is a medium to campaign the women's liberation as the Liberal Feminism has been talked about it. Through the Goldmann's dialectical method that used in this research, they are three indicators which influence the worid view of Hannah Kent about women: 1) The structure of the novel Burial Rites. The novel Burial Rites tells about a female central character named Agnes with her relation with the objects around her which degenerated from the homological structure of Kent's society and the novel itself: 2) The social genesis of the novel Burial Rites or the social structure of Icelandic society. The historical side of Icelandic society and the world view of the Australian society have affected Hannah Kent to formulate her world view and pours it into the novel, and 3) The socio-background of Hannah Kent. Kent is the Collective subject that mirroring the structure of her society and write the novel that homologically structured. Based on those three aspects, this research shows that the world view of Hannah Kent about women is Liberal Feminism.
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