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dc.contributor.author | Bezdoode, Zakarya | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bezdoode, Eshaq | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-16T08:21:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-16T08:21:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2223-2621 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/4933 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper analyzes John Updike’s short story “A & P” in the light of Max Weber’s notion of moral decision-making. A prominent contemporary American story-writer and literary critic, Updike has devoted his fiction to subjects' rational and moral problems in the contemporary consumerist society. Updike’s lifelong probing into the middle classes' lives is a body of fiction that raises questions about determinism, moral decision, and social responsibility, among others. “A & P” is a revealing example of such fiction and one among Updike’s most frequently anthologized short stories. The story, titled after a nationwide American shopping mall in the early twentieth century, investigates the possibility of decision-making within consumerist society. This paper demonstrates how Updike’s portrayal of his characters' everyday lives reveals the predicament of intellectual thinking and moral decision-making in a consumerist society and warns against the loss of individual will in such societies. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Khazar University Press | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vol. 23;№ 3 | - |
dc.subject | John Updike | en_US |
dc.subject | Max Weber | en_US |
dc.subject | intellectual decision | en_US |
dc.subject | morality | en_US |
dc.subject | “A & P” | en_US |
dc.title | Heroism in the Age of Consumerism: The Emergence of a Moral Don Quixote in John Updike’s “A & P” | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | 2020, Vol. 23, № 3 |
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